External Control of Critical State Data in GitLab

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE/CE affecting all versions from 16.9.7 prior to 17.1.7, 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, and 17.3 prior to 17.3.2. An improper input validation error allows attacker to squat on accounts via linking arbitrary unclaimed provider identities when JWT authentication is configured.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.43% · top 62% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.

Weakness

• CWE-642: External Control of Critical State Data (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-642 and its CVEs

Affected products

• GitLab · GitLab

  • affected 16.9.7 – < 17.1.7
  • affected 17.2 – < 17.2.5
  • affected 17.3 – < 17.3.2

What to do

Solution: Upgrade to versions 17.3.2, 17.2.5, 17.1.7 or above.

References (1)

• GitLab Issue #464062 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingpermissions-required

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2024-8754](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2024-8754.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2024-8754)

Record last updated 17 Sept 2024, 19:36 UTC.