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GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) before 9.0.11, 9.1.8, 9.2.8 allow an authenticated user with the ability to create a group to add themselves to any project that is inside a subgroup.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-11438
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) before 9.0.11, 9.1.8, 9.2.8 allow an authenticated user with the ability to create a group to add themselves to any project that is inside a subgroup.
osv:CVE-2017-11438
Complete source record
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