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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-0549

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2. Under certain conditions, GitLab REST API may allow unprivileged users to add other users to groups even if that is not possible to do through the Web UI.

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CVE-2022-0549
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6 Nov 2026, 04:15 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2022-0549

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 Mar 2022, 18:53 UTC

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2. Under certain conditions, GitLab REST API may allow unprivileged users to add other users to groups even if that is not possible to do through the Web UI.

osv:CVE-2022-0549
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-0549",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2022-0549",
    "summary": "An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2. Under certain conditions, GitLab REST API may allow unprivileged users to add other users to groups even if that is not possible to do through the Web UI.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-0549",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-0549",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-gitlab-2022-0549",
        "CVE-2022-0549"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
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              "type": "GIT",
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                },
                {
                  "fixed": "2ef3e89df350d5f8ffc802c04c5f19864249d125"
                },
                {
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                },
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                },
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                {
                  "fixed": "20a7fdf52c92b0b26e328d9f55803af6e4baebe4"
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              ],
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          ],
          "versions": [
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            "v14.7.2-ee",
            "v14.7.1-ee",
            "v14.7.0-ee"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:46.441668800Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-0549.json",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0549.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0549",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/342448"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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      }
    },
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        "value": "CVE-2022-0549",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 514590,
  "published_at": "2022-03-28T18:53:00+00:00"
}