CVE-2023-6840

NameCVE-2023-6840
DescriptionAn issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.4 prior to 16.6.7, 16.7 prior to 16.7.5, and 16.8 prior to 16.8.2 which allows a maintainer to change the name of a protected branch that bypasses the security policy added to block MR.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
gitlab (PTS)sid16.8.4-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
gitlabsource(unstable)16.6.7-1

Notes

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/02/07/security-release-gitlab-16-8-2-released/#project-maintainers-can-bypass-groups-scan-result-policy-block_branch_modification-setting
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