CVE-2023-6680

CVSS 3.1 Score 8.1 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Dec 15, 2023
Updated: Dec 19, 2023
CWE ID 295

Summary

CVE-2023-6680 is a certificate validation vulnerability affecting GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE). This issue, which impacts versions 11.6 to 16.6 prior to their respective patch releases, exposes Smartcard authentication to unauthorized access. An attacker can exploit this flaw to authenticate as another user by providing a valid public key during the authentication process. Given that Smartcard authentication is an optional, experimental feature that administrators must manually enable, the risk associated with this vulnerability is heightened for affected organizations using this authentication method.

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Affected Products

  • GitLab
  • GitLab Enterprise Edition

Affected Vendors

  • GitLab Inc.

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