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Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 8.12 before 17.4.5, 17.5 before 17.5.3, and 17.6 before 17.6.1. This issue allows an attacker with access to a victim's Personal Access Token (PAT) to escalate privileges.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-08-23 | Published 2024-11-26 | Updated 2024-11-30 | Assigner GitLab




HIGH: 8.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Problem types

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

8.12 (semver) before 17.4.5
affected

17.5 (semver) before 17.5.3
affected

17.6 (semver) before 17.6.1
affected

Credits

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

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/480494 (GitLab Issue #480494) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/2649822 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2649822) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2024-8114)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-8114)

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