An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.5, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.5, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.1. If an external user is given an owner role on any group, that external user may escalate their privileges on the instance by creating a service account in that group. This service account is not classified as external and may be used to access internal projects.

Related CVEs

CVE-2023-3915

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-3m8p-28cp-6cg5

Published

September 1, 2023 12:30 PM

Last Modified

April 4, 2024 7:21 AM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: August 3, 2025 6:48 AM

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