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CVE-2023-5612

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-5612 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting GitLab versions before 16.6.6, 16.7.4, and 16.8.1, allowing unauthorized disclosure of user email addresses through the tags feed, even when email visibility is disabled. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3, indicating a low impact on confidentiality with no integrity or availability impact, and can be exploited remotely with low complexity. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV entry), a Metasploit module exists, and it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0, < 16.6.6CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 16.7, < 16.7.4CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 16.8, < 16.8.1CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 16.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
< 16.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: GitLab Tags RSS feed email disclosure · Jan 25, 2024
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0439 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

Patch Available

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

about.gitlab.com / releases/2024/01/25/critical-security-release-gitlab-16-8-1-released
Vendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/428441
Broken Link
hackerone.com / reports/2208790
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