CVE-2023-2001 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting GitLab CE/EE versions prior to 15.10.8, 15.11.7, and 16.0.2. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to spoof protected tags, potentially tricking users into downloading malicious code. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a low impact on integrity and no impact on confidentiality or availability, requiring user interaction for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or inclusion in the KEV catalog, though it has received some community and media attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 15.10.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
< 15.10.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 15.11.0, < 15.11.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 15.11.0, < 15.11.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 16.0.0, < 16.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.