CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-11438

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Aug 02, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) before 9.0.11, 9.1.8, 9.2.8 allow an authenticated user with the ability to create a group to add themselves to any project that is inside a subgroup.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
GitlabGitlab9.0.0 (including)9.0.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.0.1 (including)9.0.1 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.0.2 (including)9.0.2 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.0.3 (including)9.0.3 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.0.4 (including)9.0.4 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.0.5 (including)9.0.5 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.0.6 (including)9.0.6 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.0.7 (including)9.0.7 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.0.8 (including)9.0.8 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.0.9 (including)9.0.9 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.0.10 (including)9.0.10 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.1.0 (including)9.1.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.1.1 (including)9.1.1 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.1.2 (including)9.1.2 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.1.3 (including)9.1.3 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.1.4 (including)9.1.4 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.1.5 (including)9.1.5 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.1.6 (including)9.1.6 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.1.7 (including)9.1.7 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.2.0 (including)9.2.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.2.1 (including)9.2.1 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.2.2 (including)9.2.2 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.2.3 (including)9.2.3 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.2.4 (including)9.2.4 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.2.5 (including)9.2.5 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.2.6 (including)9.2.6 (including)
GitlabGitlab9.2.7 (including)9.2.7 (including)
GitlabUbuntuartful*
GitlabUbuntuupstream*
GitlabUbuntuzesty*

Potential Mitigations

References