Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in GitLab

CVE-2024-8631
7.2HIGH

Key Information

Vendor
Gitlab
Status
Gitlab
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 September 2024

Summary

A privilege escalation issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.6 prior to 17.1.7, from 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, and from 17.3 prior to 17.3.2. A user assigned the Admin Group Member custom role could have escalated their privileges to include other custom roles.

Affected Version(s)

GitLab < 17.1.7

GitLab < 17.2.5

GitLab < 17.3.2

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.2
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Risk change from: null to: 5.5 - (MEDIUM)

  • Vulnerability published.

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

Thanks [chotebabume](https://hackerone.com/chotebabume) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
.