CVE-2024-11931: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in GitLab

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2025-01-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-1220

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.0 prior to 17.6.4, from 17.7 prior to 17.7.3, and from 17.8 prior to 17.8.1. Under certain conditions, it may have been possible for users with developer role to exfiltrate protected CI variables via CI lint.

Affected products

GitLab: from 17.0.0 before 17.6.4; from 17.7.0 before 17.7.3; 17.8.0 — fixed in 17.6.4, 17.7.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 17.6.4, 17.7.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/480901
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/01/22/patch-release-gitlab-17-8-1-released/https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/01/22/patch-release-gitlab-17-8-1-released/

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