CVE-2024-7296: GitLab

Low severity, CVSS 2.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.5 prior to 17.7.7, 17.8 prior to 17.8.5, and 17.9 prior to 17.9.2 which allowed a user with a custom permission to approve pending membership requests beyond the maximum number of allowed users.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 16.5.0, before 17.7.7 (fixed in 17.7.7); from 17.8.0, before 17.8.5 (fixed in 17.8.5); from 17.9.0, before 17.9.2 (fixed in 17.9.2)

Published 2025-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.