High severity · published Sep 12, 2024
CVE-2024-8631
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
7.2
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GI
GitLab · GitLab
16.6.0 before 17.1.7; 16.6.0 before 17.1.7; 17.2.0 before 17.2.5; 17.2.0 before 17.2.5; 17.3.0 before 17.3.2; 17.3.0 before 17.3.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8631
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8631
Broken Link
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/462665
Permissions Required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2478469
about.gitlab.com
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/09/11/patch-release-gitlab-17-3-2-released/
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