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CVE-2023-7028 — Gitlab

CISA KEV

CVSS v3.1 9.8 (CRITICAL) · EPSS 93.2% (higher than 99.8% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 9/10 · Published 2024-01-12

As of 2025-10-24, CVE-2023-7028 is a CRITICAL-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, CVSS v3.1 9.8, EPSS 93.2% (99.8th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-05-01), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2024-05-22. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2023-7028, most recently “APT35 (Charming Kitten) GCC Pre-Positioning Cyber Reconnaissance Campaign Enabling Kinetic Targeting”.

Last updated: 2025-10-24

What is CVE-2023-7028?

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.1 prior to 16.1.6, 16.2 prior to 16.2.9, 16.3 prior to 16.3.7, 16.4 prior to 16.4.5, 16.5 prior to 16.5.6, 16.6 prior to 16.6.4, and 16.7 prior to 16.7.2 in which user account password reset emails could be delivered to an unverified email address.

The record classifies CVE-2023-7028 under weakness class CWE-640. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 2 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 975 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score: 9.8 — CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (FIRST): 93.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.8% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV: Listed since 2024-05-01, federal remediation deadline 2024-05-22
Threadlinqs priority: 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
Published: 2024-01-12, last modified 2025-10-24

Is CVE-2023-7028 being exploited?

CISA added CVE-2023-7028 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-05-01, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2024-05-22 under BOD 22-01. It currently carries a trending score of 40 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

Gitlab: Gitlab

Showing 1 of 2 recorded product entries.

How to fix CVE-2023-7028

The record marks a vendor fix as available for CVE-2023-7028. Vendor advisory: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/436084. Because CVE-2023-7028 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2024-05-22. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2023-7028

1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2023-7028, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

APT35 (Charming Kitten) GCC Pre-Positioning Cyber Reconnaissance Campaign Enabling Kinetic Targeting — CRITICAL · 2026-04-09

Sources

Seeded from nvd and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.

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