CVE-2023-5933 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting GitLab CE/EE versions after 13.7 and before 16.6.6, 16.7.4, and 16.8.1. It stems from improper input sanitization of usernames, allowing authenticated attackers to make arbitrary API PUT requests. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.4, indicating a network attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to low confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion, though it has received limited media coverage from GitLab's security release.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 13.7, < 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 13.7.0, < 16.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 13.7.0, < 16.6.6CPE 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:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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.