Description
Summary
bbot's gitlab.py sends the user's "gitlab" API key to on-premise GitLab instances.
If a user has configured a gitlab.com API key using this mechanism, it may be leaked to an attacker-controlled server.
Impact
A user with a "gitlab" API key configured who uses bbot to scan a malicious webserver may leak their gitlab.com API key to an untrustworthy server.
Basic information
- Type
- reviewed
- Severity
- medium
- Advisory on GitHub
- Open advisory ↗
- Repository advisory
- Open repository advisory ↗
- Source code
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- Published (advisory)
- 2025-10-27 20:15:12 UTC
- Updated
- 2025-10-27 20:15:14 UTC
- GitHub reviewed
- 2025-10-27 20:15:12 UTC
- NVD published
- 2025-10-09
EPSS Score
| Score |
Percentile |
|
0.03%
|
7.50% |
CVSS Scores
| Base score |
Version |
Severity |
Vector |
|
4.7
|
3.1 |
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
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- Attack vector (AV:N)
- Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
- Attack complexity (AC:L)
- Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
- Privileges required (PR:N)
- No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
- User interaction (UI:R)
- A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
- Scope (S:C)
- Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
- Confidentiality (C:L)
- Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
- Integrity (I:N)
- Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
- Availability (A:N)
- Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
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CWEs
| CWE id |
Name |
|
CWE-200
|
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor |
Affected packages (2)
Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.
| Ecosystem |
Package |
Vulnerable range |
First patched |
Vulnerable functions |
| pip |
bbot |
< 2.7.0 |
2.7.2 |
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| pip |
bbot |
>= 2.7.0.6919rc0, < 2.7.2 |
2.7.2 |
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