CVE-2023-2485: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 14.1 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2. A malicious maintainer in a project can escalate other users to Owners in that project if they import members from another project that those other users are Owners of.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 14.1.0, before 15.10.8 (fixed in 15.10.8); from 15.11.0, before 15.11.7 (fixed in 15.11.7); from 16.0.0, before 16.0.2 (fixed in 16.0.2)

Published 2023-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.