cve-2014-8540
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-01-05 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 13:18
Severity
Summary
The groups API in GitLab 6.x and 7.x before 7.4.3 allows remote authenticated guest users to modify ownership of arbitrary groups by leveraging improper permission checks.
Impacted products
VendorProduct
n/an/a
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