CVE-2023-4812: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 15.3 before 16.5.6, all versions starting from 16.6 before 16.6.4, all versions starting from 16.7 before 16.7.2. The required CODEOWNERS approval could be bypassed by adding changes to a previously approved merge request.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 15.3.0, before 16.5.5 (fixed in 16.5.5); from 16.6.0, before 16.6.4 (fixed in 16.6.4); version 16.7.0 only; version 16.7.1 only

Published 2024-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.