CVE-2024-0456 (GCVE-0-2024-0456)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-26 01:02 – Updated: 2025-05-29 15:17
VLAI?
Summary
An authorization vulnerability exists in GitLab versions 14.0 prior to 16.6.6, 16.7 prior to 16.7.4, and 16.8 prior to 16.8.1. An unauthorized attacker is able to assign arbitrary users to MRs that they created within the project
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-425 - Direct Request ('Forced Browsing')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 14.0 , < 16.6.6 (semver)
Affected: 16.7 , < 16.7.4 (semver)
Affected: 16.8 , < 16.8.1 (semver)
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Credits
Thanks to [Niklas](https://gitlab.com/Taucher2003) for reporting this vulnerability
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