Vulnerability Instance

GitLab version 16.0 contains a directory traversal for arbitrary file read
          as the `gitlab-www` user. This module requires authentication for exploitation.
          In order to use this module, a user must be able to create a project and groups.
          When exploiting this vulnerability, there is a direct correlation between the traversal
          depth, and the depth of groups the vulnerable project is in. The minimum for this seems
          to be 5, but up to 11 have also been observed. An example of this, is if the directory
          traversal needs a depth of 11, a group
          and 10 nested child groups, each a sub of the previous, will be created (adding up to 11).
          Visually this looks like:
          Group1->sub1->sub2->sub3->sub4->sub5->sub6->sub7->sub8->sub9->sub10.
          If the depth was 5, a group and 4 nested child groups would be created.
          With all these requirements satisfied a dummy file is uploaded, and the full
          traversal is then executed. Cleanup is performed by deleting the first group which
          cascades to deleting all other objects created.

Stability:
  - crash-safe
Reliability: []
SideEffects:
  - ioc-in-logs