GitLab Community Edition/Enterprise Edition up to 17.4.x unnecessary privileges

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 17.4.x. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to unnecessary privileges. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-7102. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 17.4.x. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unnecessary privileges vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-250. The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.4 prior to 17.5.0 which allows an attacker to trigger a pipeline as another user under certain circumstances.

The weakness was released by pwnie as 474414. The advisory is shared for download at gitlab.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-7102 since 07/25/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 253580 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-7102), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 17.5.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (253580). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.7

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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CNA Base Score: 9.6
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Unnecessary privileges
CWE: CWE-250
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 253580
Nessus Name: Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-7102

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Community Edition/Enterprise Edition 17.5.0

Timelineinfo

07/25/2024 🔍
02/13/2025 +203 days 🔍
02/13/2025 +0 days 🔍
08/22/2025 +190 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: gitlab.com

Advisory: 474414
Researcher: pwnie
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-7102 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-7102
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-295676

Entryinfo

Created: 02/13/2025 08:09
Updated: 08/22/2025 18:28
Changes: 02/13/2025 08:09 (65), 08/06/2025 22:18 (12), 08/22/2025 18:28 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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