CVE-2024-8631 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-8631

Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in GitLab

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

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

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

GitLab
Vulnerable Versions:
16.6, 17.2, 17.3

Timeline

Official Publish: September 12th, 2024
Last Modified: September 13th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-267

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.