CVE-2024-8266

Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in GitLab

An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.1 prior to 17.6.0, which allows an attacker with maintainer role to trigger a pipeline as project owner under certain circumstances.

Affected

GitLab

CVSS v3.1 NVD

6.6 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 GITLAB

4.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 37th percentile

Published

2025-02-13

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/481531
• https://hackerone.com/reports/2649798

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry