CVE-2024-12431

Missing Authorization in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Jan 8, 2025
Updated: Feb 12, 2025
Reserved: Dec 10, 2024

Description

An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.5 before 17.5.5, 17.6 before 17.6.3, and 17.7 before 17.7.1, in which unauthorized users could manipulate the status of issues in public projects.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	15.5 to before 17.5.5Affected 17.6 to before 17.6.3Affected 17.7 to before 17.7.1Affected

References

GitLab Issue #508742issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/01/08/patch-release-gitlab-17-7-1-released/#unauthorized-user-can-manipulate-status-of-issues-in-public-projects
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2877710technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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