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CVE-2023-0450

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-0450 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting GitLab versions 8.1 through 15.8.5, 15.9 through 15.9.4, and 15.10 through 15.10.1. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to create a branch with an ambiguous name, enabling social engineering attacks. With a CVSS score of 4.6, the vulnerability requires user interaction and could lead to low impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.1.0, < 15.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 8.1.0, < 15.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 15.9.0, < 15.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 15.9.0, < 15.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
15.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:15.10.0:*:*:*:community:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.7LOW

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
2.5
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
48.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0068 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 15,239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

gitlab.com / gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-0450.json
Vendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/388962
Broken Link
hackerone.com / reports/1831547
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