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GitLab issued several security patch releases for Community Edition and Enterprise Edition to fix vulnerabilities affecting self-managed deployments, including two critical pipeline impersonation flaws that could let an attacker run CI/CD pipeline jobs as another user. The issues were tracked as CVE-2024-5655 and CVE-2024-6385, with the latter included alongside fixes for group URL modification, deploy token creation, package registry manifest confusion, group member banning, and GitLab Pages subdomain takeover. GitLab said GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated were already running patched versions and reported no evidence of abuse of CVE-2024-5655 on GitLab-managed platforms.
Subsequent patch releases addressed additional high- and medium-severity weaknesses, including stored cross-site scripting in Asciidoctor rendering (CVE-2025-0314), CI/CD variable exfiltration through CI lint (CVE-2024-11931), denial of service via cyclic epic references (CVE-2024-6324), access token exposure in logs, unauthorized issue status changes in public projects, and an Instance SAML configuration flaw that could expose internal projects or groups. GitLab also changed importer behavior after earlier importer-related problems, adding post-import mapping and user acceptance controls, and warned self-managed administrators using Direct Transfer, GitHub, Bitbucket Server, or Gitea importers to disable those features until upgraded.
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On January 22, 2025, GitLab released versions 17.8.1, 17.7.3, and 17.6.4 to fix three vulnerabilities: stored XSS in Asciidoctor rendering, CI/CD variable exfiltration via CI lint under certain conditions, and denial of service from cyclic epic references. GitLab said GitLab.com was already patched and GitLab Dedicated customers did not need to take action.
GitLab published CVE-2024-6324 on January 9, 2025, describing a medium-severity denial-of-service vulnerability caused by inefficient algorithmic complexity through cyclic references between epics. The CVE record credits researcher xorz and lists affected GitLab CE/EE version ranges.
On January 8, 2025, GitLab released versions 17.7.1, 17.6.3, and 17.5.5 to fix multiple medium-severity issues, including access token exposure in logs, unauthorized issue status changes, an Instance SAML flaw, and denial of service via cyclic epic references. GitLab also changed importer behavior after earlier importer-related vulnerabilities and advised self-managed customers with certain importers enabled to disable them until upgrading.
On July 10, 2024, GitLab released versions 17.1.2, 17.0.4, and 16.11.6 to address six vulnerabilities, including critical flaw CVE-2024-6385 that could let an attacker run pipeline jobs as another user under certain circumstances. GitLab stated that GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated were already running patched versions.
On June 26, 2024, GitLab released versions 17.1.1, 17.0.3, and 16.11.5 for Community Edition and Enterprise Edition to fix multiple vulnerabilities, including the critical pipeline impersonation flaw CVE-2024-5655. GitLab said GitLab.com was already patched and reported no evidence of abuse on GitLab-managed platforms.
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GitLab released security updates `17.3.2`, `17.2.5`, and `17.1.7` for self-managed Community Edition and Enterprise Edition to fix multiple vulnerabilities, including the critical `CVE-2024-6678`. GitLab said the flaw can let an attacker trigger a pipeline as an arbitrary user under certain circumstances and assigned it a `CVSS 9.9`, urging customers to upgrade immediately. GitLab.com had already been patched, and GitLab Dedicated customers did not need to take action. The patch bundle also addressed three high-severity issues and numerous medium- and low-severity flaws affecting pipelines, Product Analytics, Dependency Proxy, OAuth flows, CI/CD variables, repository mirroring, and access controls. A separate CVE entry for `CVE-2024-8640` was listed without public details, while GitLab also noted one issue involving arbitrary unclaimed provider identities had not yet received a CVE at the time of publication.
Jul 24, 2026
GitLab released security updates `17.3.2`, `17.2.5`, and `17.1.7` for self-managed Community Edition and Enterprise Edition instances, fixing 18 vulnerabilities including a critical issue tracked as `CVE-2024-6678` with a CVSS score of 9.9. The flaw could let an attacker trigger a CI/CD pipeline as an arbitrary user and perform a stop action under certain conditions. GitLab said GitLab.com is already running the patched version and GitLab Dedicated customers do not need to take action. The release also fixes several high-severity bugs, including command injection into a connected Cube server via YAML configuration (`CVE-2024-8640`), server-side request forgery through Maven Dependency Proxy requests to internal resources (`CVE-2024-8635`), and a denial-of-service condition caused by a crafted POST request or large `glm_source` parameter (`CVE-2024-8124`). Additional medium-severity patches address token and session abuse, permission bypasses, information disclosure, and open redirects that could contribute to account takeover through broken OAuth flows, and GitLab urged all self-managed administrators to upgrade immediately.
Jul 24, 2026
GitLab released security updates for Community Edition and Enterprise Edition to fix multiple vulnerabilities in versions `16.2.2`, `16.1.3`, and `16.0.8`, and urged self-managed customers to upgrade immediately. The fixes addressed two high-severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaws in Markdown processing, along with several medium- and low-severity issues involving cross-site scripting, denial of service, token exposure, authorization weaknesses, and information disclosure. GitLab.com was already running the patched version when the notice was issued, and the release also updated bundled Mattermost to `7.10.4` and Redis to `6.2.13` to mitigate additional security issues. One of the patched flaws, tracked as **CVE-2023-3932**, affected GitLab Enterprise Edition and could allow an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user through scheduled security scan policies because of incorrect user management. The issue affected GitLab EE versions from `13.12` before `16.0.8`, from `16.1.0` before `16.1.3`, and from `16.2.0` before `16.2.2`; it was later assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of `5.3` and credited to a HackerOne report submitted by researcher `vaib25vicky`.
Jul 24, 2026