An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.6 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1. Project Maintainers can exploit a vulnerability where they can assign custom roles to users with permissions exceeding their own, effectively granting themselves elevated privileges.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.2 · gitlabNVD modified 2026-10-19 16:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 4
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:18.4.0:*:*:*:community:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:18.4.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*