CVE-2024-8311: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered with pipeline execution policies in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, 17.3 prior to 17.3.2 which allows authenticated users to bypass variable overwrite protection via inclusion of a CI/CD template.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 17.2.0, before 17.2.5 (fixed in 17.2.5); from 17.3.0, before 17.3.2 (fixed in 17.3.2)

Published 2024-09-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.