SARA / Free Tools / CVE / CVE-2023-0756

CVE-2023-0756 — An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions before 15

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions before 15.9.6, all versions starting from 15.10 before 15.10.5, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.1. The main branch of a repository with a specially crafted name allows an attacker to create repositories w

CVSS
4.8 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.22% (top 55.60%)
CWE
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Published
2023-05-03T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2025-02-12T16:08:12.043Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions before 15.9.6, all versions starting from 15.10 before 15.10.5, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.1. The main branch of a repository with a specially crafted name allows an attacker to create repositories with malicious code, victims who clone or download these repositories will execute arbitrary code on their systems.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
GitLabGitLab<15.9.6, >=15.10, <15.10.5, >=15.11, <15.11.1

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

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

09References

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