CVE-2023-2182: GitLab

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 15.10 before 15.10.5, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.1. Under certain conditions when OpenID Connect is enabled on an instance, it may allow users who are marked as 'external' to become 'regular' users thus leading to privilege escalation for those users.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 15.10.0, before 15.10.5 (fixed in 15.10.5); version 15.11.0 only

Published 2023-05-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.