Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-0549
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 6 Nov 2026, 04:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"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.",
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:46.441668800Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"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"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2022-03-28T18:53:00+00:00"
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