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CVE-2024-1299

A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in GitLab affecting versions 16.8 prior to 16.8.4 and 16.9 prior to 16.9.2.

HIGH 8.1EPSS 0.66%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.66%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in GitLab affecting versions 16.8 prior to 16.8.4 and 16.9 prior to 16.9.2. It was possible for a user with custom role of `manage_group_access_tokens` to rotate group access tokens with owner privileges.

CVSS 3.1
8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.66% probability · 50th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-268
Affected
gitlab/gitlab
Source
cve@gitlab.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.