Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-2589

Medium

Published: 07 June 2023

Published
07 June 2023
Modified
07 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0032 55.2th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-2589 is a medium-severity Origin Validation Error (CWE-346) vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 44.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 12.0 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2. An attacker can clone a repository from a public project,…

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from a disallowed IP, even after the top-level group has enabled IP restrictions on the group.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

gitlab
gitlab
12.0.0 — 15.10.8 · 12.0.0 — 15.10.8 · 15.11.0 — 15.11.7

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.

addresses: CWE-346

Requires unique identification of the service before communications, addressing failures to validate the origin of the interaction.

addresses: CWE-346

Trusted path establishment enforces validation that the communication originates from and reaches only the intended trusted system components.

addresses: CWE-346

Enforces validation of the true origin of DNS responses via signatures and chain-of-trust mechanisms.

addresses: CWE-346

Enforces origin validation of name/address data, eliminating reliance on unverified or impersonated DNS sources.

addresses: CWE-346

Mandates origin validation so that only legitimate endpoints can continue the authenticated session.

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