The version of GitLab installed on the remote host is 12.1 prior to 15.7.8, 15.8.4, 15.9.2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SECURITY-RELEASE-GITLAB-15-9-2-RELEASED advisory.

– An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 12.1 before 15.7.8, all versions starting from 15.8 before 15.8.4, all versions starting from 15.9 before 15.9.2. It was possible for a project maintainer to extract a Datadog integration API key by modifying the site. This is a medium severity issue (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, 5.5). It is now mitigated in the latest release and is assigned CVE-2023-0483. (CVE-2023-0483)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.Read More