CVE catalog
CVE-2023-6680
UBUNTU-CVE-2023-6680
- Severity
- Unknown
- Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.38% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | gitlab | 16.04 | 8.4.3+dfsg-9 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gitlab | 16.04 | 8.4.3+dfsg-12 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gitlab | 16.04 | 8.5.8+dfsg-5 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
Observed: