CVE-2023-3915

MEDIUM

GitLab EE <16.1.5-16.3.1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.5, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.5, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.1. If an external user is given an owner role on any group, that external user may escalate their privileges on the instance by creating a service account in that group. This service account is not classified as external and may be used to access internal projects.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 9.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Classification

CWE
CWE-279 CWE-732
Status published

Affected Products (4)

gitlab/gitlab < 16.1.5
gitlab/gitlab < 16.1.5
gitlab/gitlab
gitlab/gitlab

Timeline

Published Sep 01, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026