CVE-2023-7028 — GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Improper Access Control Vulnerability
Overview
GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions contain an improper access control vulnerability. This allows an attacker to trigger password reset emails to be sent to an unverified email address to ultimately facilitate an account takeover.
Vulnerability details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2023-7028
- Vulnerability
- GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Improper Access Control Vulnerability
- Vendor
- GitLab
- Affected products
- GitLab: GitLab CE/EE
- Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitation status
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)
- Published
- 2024-05-01
Remediation guidance
CVE-2023-7028 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.
Apply the vendor's official security update for GitLab the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.
Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.
Authoritative references
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