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AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
PR:H reflects that exploitation requires an administrator-assigned custom role; C:L/I:L captures config read and write access with no availability or scope impact.
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CVSS VectorVendor: gitlab
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 17.9 before 18.11.6, 19.0 before 19.0.3, and 19.1 before 19.1.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with custom role permissions to view, create, or delete protected environment configurations despite CI/CD visibility being disabled for the project.
AnalysisAI
Protected environment configuration bypass in GitLab Enterprise Edition exposes CI/CD deployment gates to authenticated users holding custom role permissions, even when CI/CD visibility is explicitly disabled for the project. Affecting all EE versions from 17.9 before 18.11.6, 19.0 before 19.0.3, and 19.1 before 19.1.1, this CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization) flaw allows such users to view, create, or delete protected environment rules that should be inaccessible. …
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| Exploitation | Exploitation requires three concurrent conditions: (1) the attacker must be an authenticated GitLab EE user with an active session on the instance; (2) the attacker must hold a custom role assignment with relevant permissions on the specific target project - standard member roles (Guest, Reporter, Developer, etc.) are not sufficient; and (3) the target project must have CI/CD visibility explicitly disabled, which is the configuration that should block access but fails to do so. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment. |
| Risk Assessment | The CVSS 3.1 base score of 3.8 (Low) accurately reflects the constrained impact: the vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N requires high privileges (an authenticated user explicitly assigned a custom role), and the impact is limited to low confidentiality and low integrity - no availability impact and no scope change. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in. |
| Exploit Scenario | An authenticated GitLab EE project member who has been assigned a custom role navigates to or programmatically queries the protected environment configuration endpoints for a project where an administrator has disabled CI/CD visibility. Despite the visibility restriction, the authorization check passes due to the custom role permission evaluation gap, allowing the user to enumerate existing protected environment rules, add new deployment restrictions, or delete existing ones - potentially weakening deployment governance for production environments without the project maintainer's knowledge. … |
| Remediation | Upgrade GitLab EE to version 18.11.6 (for the 18.x line), 19.0.3 (for the 19.0 line), or 19.1.1 (for the 19.1 line) or later, as documented in the GitLab patch release at https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-1-1-released/. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report. |
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Same weakness CWE-863 – Incorrect Authorization
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External POC / Exploit Code
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EUVD-2026-39179
GHSA-394r-q6wg-v263