Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 29, 2023· Updated Nov 20, 2025
Improper Ownership Management in GitLab
CVE-2023-0989
Description
An information disclosure issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.11 prior to 16.2.8, 16.3 prior to 16.3.5, and 16.4 prior to 16.4.1 allows an attacker to extract non-protected CI/CD variables by tricking a user to visit a fork with a malicious CI/CD configuration.
Affected products
3- Range: >=13.11, <16.2.8; >=16.3, <16.3.5; >=16.4, <16.4.1
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
2- hackerone.com/reports/1875515mitretechnical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
- gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/417275mitreissue-tracking
News mentions
1- GitLab Security Release: 16.4.1, 16.3.5, and 16.2.8GitLab Security Releases · Sep 28, 2023