The vulnerability, if exploited, could allow an authenticated miscreant (with privileges to access publication targets) to retrieve sensitive information that could then be used to gain additional access to downstream resources.
An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.8, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.5, all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.1. It was possible to read the source code of a project through a fork created before changing visibility to only project members.