CVE-2024-8266Public exploitNetwork attack vector

Project-owner pipeline execution via registry event fallback

Published Feb 13, 2025 · Updated Feb 13, 2025

Improper privilege management in GitLab CE/EE 17.1.0 through 17.5.2 allows remote authenticated users to run pipelines as project owners. During a deploy-token image push, ee/app/models/ee/container_registry/event.rb substitutes the project owner when the registry event lacks a user originator, and the scanning worker launches the resulting pipeline with that identity. Exploitation requires Maintainer access, an Ultimate project in a user namespace, an enabled container registry, and registry vulnerability scanning; successful jobs execute with the owner's CI/CD privileges.

CVSS severity4.4
Medium
EPSS probability0.44%
Next 30 days · Sep 16, 2026
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
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Summary

What happened

Improper privilege management in GitLab CE/EE 17.1.0 through 17.5.2 allows remote authenticated users to run pipelines as project owners. During a deploy-token image push, ee/app/models/ee/container_registry/event.rb substitutes the project owner when the registry event lacks a user originator, and the scanning worker launches the resulting pipeline with that identity. Exploitation requires Maintainer access, an Ultimate project in a user namespace, an enabled container registry, and registry vulnerability scanning; successful jobs execute with the owner's CI/CD privileges.

The record

CVE
CVE-2024-8266
Published
Feb 13, 2025
Updated
Feb 13, 2025
Vendor
GitLab
Product
GitLab
Classifications
CWE-250, T1068
Attack vector
network
Privileges
authenticated

Timeline

How it unfolded

  1. Feb 13, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
  2. Feb 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.

Exploitability

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  1. Affected versionversion=17.1 <17.6.0

What conditions does exploitation require?

Attack vectornetwork
Required privilegesauthenticated

What is affected?

GitLab · GitLabversion=17.1 <17.6.0

Published CVSS scores

4.4GitLab Inc.CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
6.6NIST NVDCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Sep 10, 2026Sep 16, 2026
Latest reporting daySep 16, 2026
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Prior 30-day averageUnavailable
SourceShadowserver honeypots (KEV)
Vectornetwork
Privilegesauthenticated
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
Public exploitPublished

Weakness, pattern, technique

CWE-250Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

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