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Vulnerability · CVE-2023-2825

GitLab GitLab Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Published Aug 2, 2026 · catalog updated Aug 2, 2026 · GitLab GitLab

Patch now

CVE-2023-2825 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm GitLab GitLab against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Gaps on this record

  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
Severity
Unknown—
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
71.64%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
vendor GitLab GitLab

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting only version 16.0.0. An unauthenticated malicious user can use a path traversal vulnerability to read arbitrary files on the server when an attachment exists in a public project nested within at least five groups. Initial-access exploit intelligence.

Are you affected?

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The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor GitLab GitLabversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2023-2825

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2023-2825 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm GitLab GitLab against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 71.64%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Aug 2, 2026 · VulnCheck KEV

    Detected

    An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting only version 16.0.0. An unauthenticated malicious user can use a path traversal vulnerability to read arbitrary files on the server when an attachment exists in a public project nested within at least five groups. Initial-access exploit intelligence.

  2. Aug 2, 2026 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

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

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2023-2825

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2023-2825

    30-day exploitation probability 71.6%

    first.org
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2023-2825

    An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting only version 16.0.0. An unauthenticated malicious user can use a path traversal vulnerability to read arbitrary files on the server when an attachment exists in a public project nested within at least five groups.

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 17, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.