CVE-2024-8266

Publication date 13 February 2025

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.1 prior to 17.6.0, which allows an attacker with maintainer role to trigger a pipeline as project owner under certain circumstances.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gitlab	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored

Notes

mdeslaur

GitLab isn’t maintainable as a distro package, and was removed from Ubuntu because of this. We will not be fixing security issues in the gitlab package in Xenial.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.4 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N