CVE-2022-4037 — An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 15

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 15.5.7, all versions starting from 15.6 before 15.6.4, all versions starting from 15.7 before 15.7.2. A race condition can lead to verified email forgery and takeover of third-party accounts when using Git

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 15.5.7, all versions starting from 15.6 before 15.6.4, all versions starting from 15.7 before 15.7.2. A race condition can lead to verified email forgery and takeover of third-party accounts when using GitLab as an OAuth provider.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
GitLab	GitLab	>=0.0, <15.5.7, >=15.6, <15.6.4, >=15.7, <15.7.2

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-01-12T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-08T16:22:03.062Z

09References

• gitlab.com — https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/382957
• hackerone.com — https://hackerone.com/reports/1772543
• gitlab.com — https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-4037.json