SARA / Free Tools / KEV / CVE-2023-7028

CVE-2023-7028 on CISA KEV

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.1 prior to 16.1.6, 16.2 prior to 16.2.9, 16.3 prior to 16.3.7, 16.4 prior to 16.4.5, 16.5 prior to 16.5.6, 16.6 prior to 16.6.4, and 16.7 prior to 16.7.2 in which user account password reset emails could

CISA KEV — Actively Exploited

GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Improper Access Control Vulnerability

Vendor / Product
— / GitLab / GitLab CE/EE
Added to KEV
2024-05-01
BOD 22-01 due
2024-05-22
Ransomware use
Unknown
CVSS / EPSS
10.0 CRITICAL · EPSS 93.54%

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.1 prior to 16.1.6, 16.2 prior to 16.2.9, 16.3 prior to 16.3.7, 16.4 prior to 16.4.5, 16.5 prior to 16.5.6, 16.6 prior to 16.6.4, and 16.7 prior to 16.7.2 in which user account password reset emails could be delivered to an unverified email address.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

03Notes & references

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

VendorProductVersions
GitLabGitLab16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7

06Detection

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