CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-8266

Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Published: Feb 13, 2025 | Modified: Aug 06, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.6
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.1 prior to 17.6.0, which allows an attacker with maintainer role to trigger a pipeline as project owner under certain circumstances.

Weakness

The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gitlab Gitlab 17.1.0 (including) 17.6.0 (excluding)
Gitlab Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References