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CVE-2024-6356 (GCVE-0-2024-6356)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-05 10:02 – Updated: 2025-02-05 14:29
VLAI
Title
Incorrect User Management in GitLab
Summary
An issue was discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.0 prior to 17.0.6, starting from 17.1 prior to 17.1.4, and starting from 17.2 prior to 17.2.2, which allowed cross project access for Security policy bot.
Severity
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-05 14:29 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-286 - Incorrect User Management
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/469108 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2575051 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: 16.0 , < 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 [yvvdwf](https://hackerone.com/yvvdwf) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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