On May 23, 2023, GitLab released version 16.0.1, which addressed a critical vulnerability, CVE-2023-2825, impacting both the Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) version 16.0.0. This vulnerability enables unauthenticated users to read arbitrary files by exploiting a path traversal bug. Additionally, an unauthenticated malicious user can leverage a path traversal vulnerability to read arbitrary files on the server if there is an attachment present in a public project nested within a minimum of five groups.
Shodan Dork:
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Research: https://labs.watchtowr.com/gitlab-arbitrary-file-read-gitlab-cve-2023-2825-analysis/
PoC:
https://github.com/Occamsec/CVE-2023-2825
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