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CVE record · CVE-2023-7028

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password in GitLab

CVSS 10.0 CriticalCriticalIn CISA KEVEPSS 0.94 · 99th percentile

Critical, because:

  • In CISA’s KEV catalogue since 1 May 2024: it is known to be exploited.
  • CVSS score 10.0: 9.0 or more.
  • CVSS score 10.0 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.94 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: GitLab) at 12 Jan 2024, 13:56 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
GitLab GitLab
  • affected 16.1 to before 16.1.6 semver
  • affected 16.2 to before 16.2.9 semver
  • affected 16.3 to before 16.3.7 semver
  • affected 16.4 to before 16.4.5 semver
  • affected 16.5 to before 16.5.6 semver
  • affected 16.6 to before 16.6.4 semver
  • affected 16.7 to before 16.7.2 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2023-7028
CNA
GitLab
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-640
Tags
Published
12 Jan 2024
Updated
15 Aug 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
10.0 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N CNA (GitLab)
  • CISA KEV Listed since 1 May 2024: known to be exploited.
  • EPSS 0.94, the 99th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 12 Jan 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.