CVE-2023-5117 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2023-5117

Exposure of Sensitive Information Due to Incompatible Policies in GitLab

Vulnerability Description

An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 17.6.0 in which users were unaware that files uploaded to comments on confidential issues and epics of public projects could be accessed without authentication via a direct link to the uploaded file URL.

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:

  • This issue was reported internally by team member [Greg Myers](https://gitlab.com/greg).

References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

GitLab
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: December 25th, 2024
Last Modified: December 26th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-213

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.