GitLab Community Edition/Enterprise Edition up to 16.6.5/16.7.3/16.8.0 Workspace path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 16.6.5/16.7.3/16.8.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Workspace Handler. Performing a manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-0402. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 16.6.5/16.7.3/16.8.0 (Bug Tracking Software). This affects an unknown functionality of the component Workspace Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.0 prior to 16.6.6, 16.7 prior to 16.7.4, and 16.8 prior to 16.8.1 which allows an authenticated user to write files to arbitrary locations on the GitLab server while creating a workspace.

The weakness was shared 01/26/2024 as 437819. It is possible to read the advisory at gitlab.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-0402 since 01/10/2024. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 16.5.8, 16.6.6, 16.7.4 or 16.8.1 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at about.gitlab.com.

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Type

• Bug Tracking Software

Vendor

• GitLab

Name

• Community Edition
• Enterprise Edition

Version

• 16.0
• 16.1
• 16.2
• 16.3
• 16.4
• 16.5
• 16.6
• 16.6.0
• 16.6.1
• 16.6.2
• 16.6.3
• 16.6.4
• 16.6.5
• 16.7
• 16.7.0
• 16.7.1
• 16.7.2
• 16.7.3
• 16.8.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://gitlab.com/

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