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Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.7.6, all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.3, all versions starting from 16.9 before 16.9.1. Users with the `Guest` role can change `Custom dashboard projects` settings contrary to permissions.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-01-24 | Published 2024-02-21 | Updated 2026-05-01 | Assigner GitLab




MEDIUM: 4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-425: Direct Request ('Forced Browsing')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

16.9 (semver) before 16.9.1
affected

16.8 (semver) before 16.8.3
affected

16.4 (semver) before 16.7.6
affected

Credits

Thanks [them4les_l1r](https://hackerone.com/them4les_l1r) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program finder

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/439240 (GitLab Issue #439240) issue-tracking

hackerone.com/reports/2316435 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2316435) technical-description exploit

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/439240 (GitLab Issue #439240) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/2316435 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2316435) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2024-0861)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-0861)

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