CVE-2022-2456 Missing authorization in GitLab

What is CVE-2022-2456?

CVE-2022-2456 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab, published on 5 Aug 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 15.0.5, all versions starting from 15.1 before 15.1.4, all versions starting from 15.2 before 15.2.1. It may be possible for malicious group or project maintainers to change their corresponding group or project visibility by crafting a malicious POST request.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2456?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including gitlab. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gitlab Gitlab.

How do I fix CVE-2022-2456?

Upgrade gitlab to a fixed version for your release line: 15.0.5, 15.1.4 or 15.2.1.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2022-2456 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2456 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2023-7028 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Improper Access Control Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2021-22205 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2021-39935 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Exploited Medium 6.8

All Gitlab Gitlab vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-gitlab-2022-2456, GHSA-57c2-x23h-8mc3, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2456.