GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Improper Access Control Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2024-05-01
Federal due date
2024-05-22
Vendor
GitLab
Product
GitLab CE/EE
EPSS
99.8th percentile (score 0.934, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-7028

CISA short description

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.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.