CVE-2023-7028

What the flaw is

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.

Description as published by CISA. We have not independently reproduced it.

What CISA requires

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

This deadline is binding on US federal civilian agencies under BOD 22-01. It is not a legal deadline for anyone else, but it is a useful urgency signal — CISA sets it by how actively the flaw is being used, not by CVSS.

Public exploit code

124 public repositories referencing this CVE have been catalogued on GitHub. That volume usually means a reliable, widely-reproduced exploit. Treat this as a strong signal to prioritise patching, not as a verified working exploit — many such repositories are scanners, write-ups or forks rather than functional code.

• 0day404/HV-2024-POC
• 0xAj-Krishna/biggest-hack
• 0xAj-Krishna/biggest-hack-2023-24
• 0xMarcio/cve
• 0xfke/500-free-TryHackMe-rooms
• 0xsyr0/OSCP
• 12442RF/POC
• 5thphlame/Free-Rooms-TryHackMe

Showing 8 of 124. Full list in the trickest/cve dataset.

Vendor advisories

• about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/01/11/critical-security-release-gitlab-16-7-2-r
• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-7028

Primary sources

• NVD entry — CVSS score, CPE list and references
• CISA KEV catalog — the source for this page
• CVE Record at cve.org