SB2023090137 - Multiple vulnerabilities in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) 



SB2023090137 - Multiple vulnerabilities in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE)

Published: September 1, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023090137
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 12
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 33% Low 67%
  • Low
  • Medium
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  • Critical

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 12 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3915)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions. A remote administrator can gain internal access through group service account.


2) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4378)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to excessive data output by the application in the Sentry error tracking settings page. A remote administrator can change the configured URL and leak the sentry token.


3) Cleartext storage of sensitive information (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3950)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to cleartext storage of sensitive information. A remote administrator can see the Public Key for a Google Cloud Logging audit event streaming destination.


4) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4630)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to excessive data output by the application in the project import endpoint. A remote user can gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.


5) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-4343)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to excessive data output by the application. A remote user can leak credentials stored in site profile.


6) Open redirect (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1279)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to redirect victims to arbitrary URL.

The vulnerability exists due to improper sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote user can create a link that leads to a trusted website, however, when clicked, redirects the victim to arbitrary domain.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to perform a phishing attack and steal potentially sensitive information.


7) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4638)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper permission validation. A remote user can fork a project outside of current group. 


8) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4018)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper permission validation. A remote user can create model experiments in public projects.


9) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3205)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing regular expressions in bulk import API. A remote user can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


10) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4647)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the projects API pagination can be skipped. A remote user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


11) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-0120)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper permission validation. A remote user can edit labels description.


12) Improper access control (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1555)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to gain unauthorized access to otherwise restricted functionality.

The vulnerability exists due to improper access restrictions. A remote administrator after being banned can access the API and delete package registries.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.