GitLab Security Release: 16.9.2, 16.8.4, 16.7.7

Today we are releasing versions 16.9.2, 16.8.4, 16.7.7 for GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE).

These versions contain important security fixes, and we strongly recommend that all GitLab installations be upgraded to one of these versions immediately. GitLab.com is already running the patched version.

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We are dedicated to ensuring all aspects of GitLab that are exposed to customers or that host customer data are held to the highest security standards. As part of maintaining good security hygiene, it is highly recommended that all customers upgrade to the latest security release for their supported version. You can read more best practices in securing your GitLab instance in our blog post.

Recommended Action

We strongly recommend that all installations running a version affected by the issues described below are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

When no specific deployment type (omnibus, source code, helm chart, etc.) of a product is mentioned, this means all types are affected.

Table of fixes

Title	Severity
Bypassing CODEOWNERS approval allowing to steal protected variables	High
Guest with manage group access tokens can rotate and see group access token with owner permissions	Medium

Bypassing CODEOWNERS approval allowing to steal protected variables

An authorization bypass vulnerability was discovered in GitLab affecting versions 11.3 prior to 16.7.7, 16.7.6 prior to 16.8.4, and 16.8.3 prior to 16.9.2. An attacker could bypass CODEOWNERS by utilizing a crafted payload in an old feature branch to perform malicious actions. This is a high severity issue (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N, 7.7). It is now mitigated in the latest release and is assigned CVE-2024-0199.

Thanks ali_shehab for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program.

Guest with manage group access tokens can rotate and see group access token with owner permissions

A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in GitLab affecting versions 16.8 prior to 16.8.4 and 16.9 prior to 16.9.2. It was possible for a user with custom role of manage_group_access_tokens to rotate group access tokens with owner privileges. This is a medium severity issue (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N, 6.5). It is now mitigated in the latest release and is assigned CVE-2024-1299.

Thanks ashish_r_padelkar for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program.

Upgrade Kubectl to the latest stable version

kubectl has been updated to version 1.29.2.

Mattermost Security Updates February 14, 2024

Mattermost has been updated to version 9.5, which contains several patches and security fixes.

Non Security Patches

16.9.2

• Merge branch 'hm-rescue-stale-element-error-in-base' into 'master'
• Fix broken master
• Use fixed date for failing specs [16.9]
• Backport 'pb-fix-broken-master-elastic' into 16.9
• Backport Fix Search::Zoekt.index? logic to 16.9
• Backport 'Don't escape search term in modal twice' into 16.9
• Backport 'add-praefect-to-release-environment-template'
• Backport 'Shows branch name in non-blob…scopes' into 16.9
• Backport: Geo - Fix container repositories checksum mismatch errors
• Backport 145801 (Fix CI linter error when repository is empty) to 16.9
• Merge branch 'remove-pi-os-12-release' into 'master'
• Backport to 16.9: Fix Geo: Personal snippets not syncing

16.8.4

• Backport to 16.8: Fix Geo: Personal snippets not syncing
• Backport to 16.8: Fix pg_dump failing with multiple PG read-replicas
• Update tests for broken 16.8
• Backport 'add-praefect-to-release-environment-template'
• Backport: Geo - Fix container repositories checksum mismatch errors
• Backport 145801 (Fix CI linter error when repository is empty) to 16.8

16.7.7

• Backport to 16.7: Fix pg_dump failing with multiple PG read-replicas
• Merge branch 'add-praefect-to-release-environment-template'

Updating

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