Vulnerability: Bypassing Security Policy for Protected Branch Name Change in GitLab EE

Vulnerability: Bypassing Security Policy for Protected Branch Name Change in GitLab EE

CVE-2023-6840 · MEDIUM Severity

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

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.4 prior to 16.6.7, 16.7 prior to 16.7.5, and 16.8 prior to 16.8.2 which allows a maintainer to change the name of a protected branch that bypasses the security policy added to block MR.

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