CVE-2021-39903
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-11-04 22:42
Modified
2024-08-04 02:20
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
In all versions of GitLab CE/EE since version 13.0, a privileged user, through an API call, can change the visibility level of a group or a project to a restricted option even after the instance administrator sets that visibility option as restricted in settings.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39903.jsonVendor Advisory
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/300017Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/1086781Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
GitLabGitLab
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