CVE-2024-9163: GitLab

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A business logic error in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.1 prior to 17.10.7, 17.11 prior to 17.11.3 and 18.0 prior to 18.0.1 where an attacker can cause a branch name confusion in confidential MRs.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 12.1.0, before 17.10.7 (fixed in 17.10.7); from 17.11.0, before 17.11.3 (fixed in 17.11.3); version 18.0.0 only

Published 2025-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.