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
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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

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
GitlabGitlab17.1.0 (including)17.6.0 (excluding)
GitlabUbuntuesm-apps/xenial*

Potential Mitigations

References