CVE-2024-7296 | THREATINT

Description

An issue was discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.5 prior to 17.7.7, 17.8 prior to 17.8.5, and 17.9 prior to 17.9.2 which allowed a user with a custom permission to approve pending membership requests beyond the maximum number of allowed users.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-07-30 | Published 2025-03-13 | Updated 2025-03-14 | Assigner GitLab

LOW: 2.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

Product status

Default status

unaffected

16.5 (semver) before 17.7.7

affected

17.8 (semver) before 17.8.5

affected

17.9 (semver) before 17.9.2

affected

Credits

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

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/475056 (GitLab Issue #475056) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/2602274 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2602274) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2024-7296)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-7296)

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