Vulnerability record/PUBLISHED/Published Sep 19, 2023 07:01:14 UTC

CVE-2023-5009

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 13.12 before 16.2.7, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.4. It was possible for an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user via scheduled security scan policies. This was a bypass of [CVE-2023-3932](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-3932) showing additional impact.

Base score8.2/ 10

SeverityHighCVSS 3.1

Exploitability / impact

CVSS metric breakdown

Vector-derived attributes

Base severityHigh

Attack vectorNetworkAV

Attack complexityHighAC

Privileges requiredLowPR

User interactionNoneUI

ScopeChangedS

Confidentiality impactHighC

Integrity impactHighI

Availability impactNoneA

CVSS vector stringCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS communicates standardized severity and impact characteristics. It does not establish whether a system is exploitable in your specific environment.

Record context

CVE Numbering AuthorityGitLab

Last updatedOct 28, 2026 11:39:50 UTC

PublishedSep 19, 2023 07:01:14 UTC

ReservedSep 15, 2023 22:30:36 UTC

Credits

Thanks [joaxcar](https://hackerone.com/joaxcar) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program