CVE-2023-7028
Actively exploited. CVE-2023-7028 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-05-01) — exploitation has been observed in the wild, and US federal agencies are required to remediate it under BOD 22-01. Treat patching as urgent.
Public exploit code is available. Proof-of-concept or working exploit code for CVE-2023-7028 is indexed in Metasploit, Exploit-DB, GitHub PoC and Nuclei. Expect opportunistic scanning and exploitation attempts — prioritize remediation.
GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions contain an improper access control vulnerability. This allows an attacker to trigger password reset emails to be sent to an unverified email address to ultimately facilitate an account takeover.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- The vulnerability allows an attacker to trigger password reset emails to unverified email addresses, facilitating account takeover.
- Who is affected
- Users of GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions are affected.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent due to active exploitation and critical severity.
- Action
- Implement the recommended security updates from GitLab.
AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.
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Exploitation outlook
- Exploitation confirmedAlready exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 99.8% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Exploit availability
Public exploit or proof-of-concept code for CVE-2023-7028 is indexed in these free datasets. Available exploit code raises real-world risk independent of the CVSS score.
- MetasploitA Metasploit Framework module targets this CVE — weaponized, point-and-click exploitation.look it up ↗
- Exploit-DBA public exploit is published in the Exploit-DB archive.look it up ↗
- GitHub PoCPublic proof-of-concept repositories on GitHub reference this CVE.look it up ↗
- NucleiA nuclei-templates detection/PoC template exists for this CVE.look it up ↗
Advisory coverage (3)
- criticalexploitedCVE-2023-7028: GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Improper Access Control Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2024-05-01
- criticalexploitedGitLab Critical Security Release: 16.7.2, 16.6.4, 16.5.6gitlab · 2024-01-11
- criticalexploitedGitLab Critical Security Release: 16.7.2, 16.6.4, 16.5.6gitlab · 2024-01-11
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