CVE-2024-7296 (GCVE-0-2024-7296)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-13 06:00
Modified
2025-03-14 13:43
Severity ?
2.7 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Summary
An issue was discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.5 prior to 17.7.7, 17.8 prior to 17.8.5, and 17.9 prior to 17.9.2 which allowed a user with a custom permission to approve pending membership requests beyond the maximum number of allowed users.
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/475056 issue-tracking, permissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2602274 technical-description, exploit, permissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Version: 16.5   ≤
Version: 17.8   ≤
Version: 17.9   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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