CVE-2023-6680

HighCVSS 8.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An improper certificate validation issue in Smartcard authentication in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 11.6 prior to 16.4.4, 16.5 prior to 16.5.4, and 16.6 prior to 16.6.2 allows an attacker to authenticate as another user given their public key if they use Smartcard authentication. Smartcard authentication is an experimental feature and has to be manually enabled by an administrator.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.1/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-295

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Dec 15, 2023
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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