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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.4

CVE-2024-8266 json

Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in GitLab

published 2025-02-13 20 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 59 d ago also BIT-gitlab-2024-8266 , EUVD-2025-4923

cvss
4.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.1 prior to 17.6.0, which allows an attacker with maintainer role to trigger a pipeline as project owner under certain circumstances.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami gitlab 17.6.0
  • GitLab GitLab 17.6.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
20 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • hackerone.com https://hackerone.com/reports/2649798 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/481531 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami gitlab
>=17.1.0, <17.6.0
17.6.0

Affected products

  • GitLab GitLab

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.