Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in GitLab EE with OpenID Connect

CVE-2023-2182 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 15.10 before 15.10.5, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.1. Under certain conditions when OpenID Connect is enabled on an instance, it may allow users who are marked as 'external' to become 'regular' users thus leading to privilege escalation for those users.

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