CVE-2023-7028: GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Improper Access Control Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Description

GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions contain an improper access control vulnerability. This allows an attacker to trigger password reset emails to be sent to an unverified email address to ultimately facilitate an account takeover.

Required action (CISA)

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

Notes

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/01/11/critical-security-release-gitlab-16-7-2-released/ ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-7028

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-284. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-7028
• KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog