CVE-2023-4658 is a low-severity vulnerability in GitLab EE, affecting versions 8.13 through 16.4.2, 16.5 through 16.5.2, and 16.6.0. An attacker with guest user permissions, granted via a group, could bypass "Allowed to merge" restrictions. The attack requires low privileges and high attack complexity, with a potential impact of low integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or inclusion in the CISA KEV catalog, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage from GitLab's security releases.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 8.13, < 16.4.3CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 16.5, < 16.5.3CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 16.6, < 16.6.1CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 8.13.0, < 16.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 16.5.0, < 16.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.