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CVE-2024-8631

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.2)—

A privilege escalation issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.6 prior to 17.1.7, from 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, and from 17.3 prior to 17.3.2. A user assigned the Admin Group Member custom role could have escalated their privileges to include other custom roles.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

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