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FKIE_CVE-2024-9163

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-05-23 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:24
Severity
3.5 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
A business logic error in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.1 prior to 17.10.7, 17.11 prior to 17.11.3 and 18.0 prior to 18.0.1 where an attacker can cause a branch name confusion in confidential MRs.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/493942Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/2705566Permissions Required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab 18.0.0
gitlab gitlab 18.0.0
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