vulnerability

Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2023-6477: Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:P)
Published
Feb 21, 2024
Added
Apr 22, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.7.6, all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.3, all versions starting from 16.9 before 16.9.1. When a user is assigned a custom role with admin_group_member permission, they may be able to make a group, other members or themselves Owners of that group, which may lead to privilege escalation.

Solution

gitlab-gitlab-upgrade-latest
Title
NEW

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