CVE-2024-9163 (GCVE-0-2024-9163)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-23 12:31 – Updated: 2025-05-27 14:40
VLAI
Title
User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information in GitLab
Summary
A business logic error in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.1 prior to 17.10.7, 17.11 prior to 17.11.3 and 18.0 prior to 18.0.1 where an attacker can cause a branch name confusion in confidential MRs.
Severity
3.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-451 - User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/493942 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2705566 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 12.1 , < 17.10.7 (semver)
Affected: 17.11 , < 17.11.3 (semver)
Affected: 18.0 , < 18.0.1 (semver)
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Credits
Thanks [foxribeye](https://hackerone.com/foxribeye) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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