CVE-2023-2200
Published: 13 July 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-2200 is a medium-severity Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output (CWE-116) vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 4.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 22.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-33713
Vulnerability details
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 7.14 before 15.11.10, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.6, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.1, which allows an attacker to inject HTML in an email…
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address field.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.