An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.7.6, all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.3, all versions starting from 16.9 before 16.9.1. When a user is assigned a custom role with admingroupmember permission, they may be able to make a group, other members or themselves Owners of that group, which may lead to privilege escalation.
{ "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:16.9.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "severity": "Medium" }