CVE-2023-6477 (GCVE-0-2023-6477)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-21 23:31
Modified
2025-05-22 04:10
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.7.6, all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.3, all versions starting from 16.9 before 16.9.1. When a user is assigned a custom role with admin_group_member permission, they may be able to make a group, other members or themselves Owners of that group, which may lead to privilege escalation.
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/433463 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/2270898 technical-description, exploit, permissions-required, broken-link
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Version: 16.5   
Version: 16.8   
Version: 16.9   
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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