CVE-2023-5009
Description
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 13.12 before 16.2.7, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.4. It was possible for an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user via scheduled security scan policies. This was a bypass of [CVE-2023-3932](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-3932) showing additional impact.
Summary dbcve.org
An authorization bypass vulnerability in GitLab EE allows attackers to execute pipeline jobs with arbitrary user privileges by exploiting scheduled security scan policies. This vulnerability bypasses the fix for CVE-2023-3932, enabling unauthorized pipeline execution as any user in the affected GitLab instance.
Mitigation
Upgrade GitLab EE to version 16.2.7 and later, or 16.3.4 and later to remediate this authorization bypass.