CVE-2023-3385: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 8.10 before 16.0.8, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.3, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.2. Under specific circumstances, a user importing a project 'from export' could access and read unrelated files via uploading a specially crafted file. This was due to a bug in `tar`, fixed in [`tar-1.35`](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2023-07/msg00005.html).

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 8.10, before 16.0.8 (fixed in 16.0.8); from 16.1, before 16.1.3 (fixed in 16.1.3); from 16.2, before 16.2.2 (fixed in 16.2.2)

Published 2023-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.