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UBUNTU-CVE-2024-1299 (CVE-2024-1299)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-03-07 01:15 – Updated: 2025-10-24 05:06 – Source website

Details

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.

Severity

8.1 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

6.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-1299	REPORT
	https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/440745	REPORT
	https://hackerone.com/reports/2356976	REPORT
	https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/03/06/secu…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1299	REPORT

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CVE-2024-1299 (GCVE-0-2024-1299)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-07 00:39 – Updated: 2024-10-03 06:23

Title

Privilege Chaining in GitLab

Summary

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.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-03-12 04:00 UTC

CWE

CWE-268 - Privilege Chaining

Assigner

GitLab CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 75/100 over 312 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/440745	issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2356976	technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/03/06/secu…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
GitLab	GitLab	Affected: 16.8 , < 16.8.4 (semver) Affected: 16.9 , < 16.9.2 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab::::::::

Credits

Thanks [ashish_r_padelkar](https://hackerone.com/ashish_r_padelkar) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program

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