CVE-2023-5198 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting GitLab versions prior to 16.2.7, 16.3 before 16.3.5, and 16.4 before 16.4.1. This flaw allowed a removed project member to write to protected branches through the misuse of deploy keys. The CVSS score of 4.3 indicates a low-complexity attack requiring low privileges, with a potential impact of unauthorized information modification. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 16.3, < 16.3.5CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 16.4, < 16.4.1CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 0, <= 16.2.7CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 8.15, < 16.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 8.15, < 16.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* |
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 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.