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CVE-2023-4008

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-4008 is a critical vulnerability affecting GitLab CE/EE versions 15.9 through 16.0.7, 16.1 through 16.1.2, and 16.2 through 16.2.1. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to take over GitLab Pages with unique domain URLs if they can guess a specific random string. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and results in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, indicating it is not actively exploited. Community discussion and media coverage are minimal, with only one mention and one article, respectively.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 15.9, < 16.0.8CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 16.1, < 16.1.3CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 16.2, < 16.2.2CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 15.9.0, < 16.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 15.9.0, < 16.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0060 is in the 26th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-4008Moderate

gitlab: Pages Takeover with random String

Aug 3, 2023

References

gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/415942
Broken Link