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CVE-2024-12570 (GCVE-0-2024-12570)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-12 11:30 – Updated: 2024-12-17 04:56
VLAI
Title
Privilege Context Switching Error in GitLab
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.7 prior to 17.4.6, from 17.5 prior to 17.5.4, and from 17.6 prior to 17.6.2. It may have been possible for an attacker with a victim's `CI_JOB_TOKEN` to obtain a GitLab session token belonging to the victim.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-16 00:00 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-270 - Privilege Context Switching Error
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/494694 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2724948 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: 13.7 , < 17.4.6 (semver)
Affected: 17.5 , < 17.5.4 (semver)
Affected: 17.6 , < 17.6.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [yvvdwf](https://hackerone.com/yvvdwf) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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