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🛡️ CVE-2024-12570 — gitlab

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-270 OSV
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Description

Privilege Context Switching Error in GitLab

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-12570 is classified as CWE-270: Privilege Context Switching Error. The product does not properly manage privileges while it is switching between different contexts that have different privileges or spheres of control.

Affected software

CVE-2024-12570 is recorded against 1 package.

  • gitlab

Timeline and source

Published on 16 December 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from OSV.

References

gitlab.com (Web)
hackerone.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Other advisories for this package

gitlab has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-270: Privilege Context Switching Error) in other software:

CVE-2024-12570 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE CWE-270
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source OSV
Published 2024-12-16
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gitlab — —

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