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CVE-2016-4340in critical feed1 exploit

The impersonate feature in Gitlab 8.7.0, 8.6.0 through 8.6.7, 8.5.0 through 8.5.11, 8.4.0 through 8.4.9, 8.3.0 through 8.3.8, and 8.2.0 thr…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
8.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
10.1%
percentile 96%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

The impersonate feature in Gitlab 8.7.0, 8.6.0 through 8.6.7, 8.5.0 through 8.5.11, 8.4.0 through 8.4.9, 8.3.0 through 8.3.8, and 8.2.0 through 8.2.4 allows remote authenticated users to "log in" as any other user via unspecified vectors.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

10.14% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-40236 GitLab - 'impersonate' Feature Privilege Escalation · webapps · 2016-08-15

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.08.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.06.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Technology feeds
GitLab (RSS, critical only)

References

  • about.gitlab.com /2016/05/02/cve-2016-4340-patches/ · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • exploit-db.com /exploits/40236/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
  • gitlab.com /gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15548 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • packetstormsecurity.com /files/138368/GitLab-Impersonate-Privilege-Escalation.html · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

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