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CVE-2024-4784 (GCVE-0-2024-4784)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-08 10:02 – Updated: 2024-08-29 15:04
VLAI
Title
Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in GitLab
Summary
An issue was discovered in GitLab EE starting from version 16.7 before 17.0.6, version 17.1 before 17.1.4 and 17.2 before 17.2.2 that allowed bypassing the password re-entry requirement to approve a policy.
Severity
4.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-08 14:12 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-305 - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/461248 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2486223 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: 16.7 , < 17.0.6 (semver)
Affected: 17.1 , < 17.1.4 (semver)
Affected: 17.2 , < 17.2.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [vexin](https://hackerone.com/vexin) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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