🛡️ CVE-2024-1299 on Ubuntu — gitlab

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in GitLab affecting versions 16.8 prior to 16.8.4 and 16.9 prior to 16.9.2. It was possible for a user with custom role of manage_group_access_tokens to rotate group access tokens with owner privileges.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-1299 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package gitlab. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-1299 is classified as CWE-268: Privilege Chaining. Two distinct privileges, roles, capabilities, or rights can be combined in a way that allows an entity to perform unsafe actions that would not be allowed without that combination.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-1299 is recorded against 1 package.

  • gitlab

Timeline and source

Published on 7 March 2024 and last revised on 24 October 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
gitlab.com (Report)
hackerone.com (Report)
about.gitlab.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)

CVE-2024-1299 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-07
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-10-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gitlab — —

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