CVE-2024-8631

Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in GitLab

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

GitLab

CVSS v3.1 NVD

7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 GITLAB

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

EPSS

0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 43rd percentile

Published

2024-09-12

Updated

2024-09-13

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/2478469

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry