CVE-2023-3500 (GCVE-0-2023-3500)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-02 00:07
Modified
2025-11-20 04:07
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 10.0 before 16.0.8, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.3, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.2. A reflected XSS was possible when creating specific PlantUML diagrams that allowed the attacker to perform arbitrary actions on behalf of victims.
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/416902 issue-tracking, permissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2010926 technical-description, exploit, permissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Version: 10.0   ≤
Version: 16.1   ≤
Version: 16.2   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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