CVE-2023-2485 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2023-2485

Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab

4.4 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 14.1 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2. A malicious maintainer in a project can escalate other users to Owners in that project if they import members from another project that those other users are Owners of.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Thanks [theluci](https://hackerone.com/theluci) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program

References

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Affected Vendor

GitLab

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Affected Software

GitLab

Vulnerable Versions:

>=14.1, <15.10.8, >=15.11, <15.11.7, >=16.0, <16.0.2

Timeline

Official Publish: June 7th, 2023

Last Modified: January 7th, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1078 Valid Accounts

T1098 Account Manipulation

Privilege Escalation

T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism

Privilege Escalation

T1484 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification

Defense Evasion

T1021 Remote Services

Lateral Movement