Improper Certificate Validation in GitLab (CVE-2023-6680)

Summary

Improper Certificate Validation in GitLab

Original description

The description as published by the source.

An improper certificate validation issue in Smartcard authentication in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 11.6 prior to 16.4.4, 16.5 prior to 16.5.4, and 16.6 prior to 16.6.2 allows an attacker to authenticate as another user given their public key if they use Smartcard authentication. Smartcard authentication is an experimental feature and has to be manually enabled by an administrator.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Affected packages

Bitnami gitlab

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"11.6.0"},{"fixed":"16.4.4"},{"introduced":"16.5.0"},{"fixed":"16.5.4"},{"introduced":"16.6.0"},{"fixed":"16.6.2"}]}]

References

web gitlab.com
web nvd.nist.gov