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CVE-2023-1787

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-1787 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting GitLab versions 15.9 through 15.9.3 and 15.10.0. A specially crafted HTML payload in an issue description could trigger a search timeout, leading to a denial of service. The attack requires no privileges and is of low complexity, but its impact is limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, though it has received some community and media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 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:*:*:*
15.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:15.10.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0075 is in the 32nd percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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-2023-1787.json
Vendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/394817
Broken Link