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Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in GitLab

Type: advisorySources: OSV

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.0 prior to 17.6.4, from 17.7 prior to 17.7.3, and from 17.8 prior to 17.8.1. Under certain conditions, it may have been possible for users with developer role to exfiltrate protected CI variables via CI lint.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2024-11931
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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7 Nov 2026, 11:55 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in GitLab

core-osv · Original source

Published 24 Jan 2025, 03:02 UTC

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.0 prior to 17.6.4, from 17.7 prior to 17.7.3, and from 17.8 prior to 17.8.1. Under certain conditions, it may have been possible for users with developer role to exfiltrate protected CI variables via CI lint.

osv:CVE-2024-11931
Complete source record
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  "id": "37d29361fba02d86c721d0de4164c88bf95c034257063208dee3fa096dfc2399",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-11931",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in GitLab",
    "summary": "An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.0 prior to 17.6.4, from 17.7 prior to 17.7.3, and from 17.8 prior to 17.8.1. Under certain conditions, it may have been possible for users with developer role to exfiltrate protected CI variables via CI lint.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-11931",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2024-11931",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-gitlab-2024-11931",
        "CVE-2024-11931"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
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                  "introduced": "8c75d0bf4a4190d94326f1a854d0a102ceca4392"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "895b46185b5908d7ac6ca2bfb578950b3c31a572"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "1fd574ee5710155adf5307fba45132264dcb64a1"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "2aa74e88172ac60f71fd52f9bbf525f5dfab4a9a"
                },
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                  "introduced": "f03594b9e09b648c839e9c008286a24c93c82373"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "f03594b9e09b648c839e9c008286a24c93c82373"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
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                        "introduced": "17.0.0"
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                      }
                    ],
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                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
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                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:17.8.0:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
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                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:17.8.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
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                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
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                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "17.8.0",
            "v17.8.0-ee",
            "v17.7.0-ee",
            "v17.7.2-ee"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-11931.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:50.915252190Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/01/22/patch-release-gitlab-17-8-1-released/https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/01/22/patch-release-gitlab-17-8-1-released/",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/11xxx/CVE-2024-11931.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11931",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/480901"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-1220"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "GitLab",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/11xxx/CVE-2024-11931.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2024-11931",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 519204,
  "published_at": "2025-01-24T03:02:16.074+00:00"
}