CVE-2023-5117
Published: 25 December 2024
Summary
CVE-2023-5117 is a low-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information Due to Incompatible Policies (CWE-213) vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 3.7 (Low).
Operationally, ranked at the 39.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-57455
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 17.6.0 in which users were unaware that files uploaded to comments on confidential issues and epics of public projects could be accessed without authentication via a direct link to…
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the uploaded file URL.
- 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.
Marking hardware components with the permitted impact or classification level directly supports consistent policy enforcement, reducing the chance that sensitive data is processed on an incompatible component and thereby exposed.
Demands documented authority and policy alignment for PII processing, reducing exposure due to incompatible or absent policies.
Directly enforces purpose compatibility and policy alignment for PII processing, preventing exposure from incompatible policies.