CVE-2023-1936 — An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting fro

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.7 before 15.11.10, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.6, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.1, which allows an attacker to leak the email address of a user who created a service

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.7 before 15.11.10, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.6, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.1, which allows an attacker to leak the email address of a user who created a service desk issue.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
GitLab	GitLab	13.7, 16.0, 16.1

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

• 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: 2023-07-11T07:58:27.746Z
• Last modified: 2024-11-12T16:22:49.564Z

09References

• gitlab.com — https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/405150
• hackerone.com — https://hackerone.com/reports/1933829