CVE-2023-1084 — 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 15.7.8, all versions starting from 15.8 before 15.8.4, all versions starting from 15.9 before 15.9.2. A malicious project Maintainer may create a Project Access Token with Owner level privileges using a cr

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 15.7.8, all versions starting from 15.8 before 15.8.4, all versions starting from 15.9 before 15.9.2. A malicious project Maintainer may create a Project Access Token with Owner level privileges using a crafted request.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
GitLab	GitLab	>=0.0, <15.7.8, >=15.8, <15.8.4, >=15.9, <15.9.2

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: 2023-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-28T21:34:19.563Z

09References

• gitlab.com — https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/390696
• hackerone.com — https://hackerone.com/reports/1805549
• gitlab.com — https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-1084.json