What is CVE-2017-11438?

CVE-2017-11438 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2017-08-02.

How severe is CVE-2017-11438?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in GitLab

CVE-2017-11438

GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) before 9.0.11, 9.1.8, 9.2.8 allow an authenticated user with the ability to create a group to add themselves to any project that is inside a subgroup.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

Published 2017-08-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (47.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-06.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 48th percentile — 47.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GitLab — versions 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

about.gitlab.com/2017/07/19/gitlab-9-dot-3-dot-8-released/ (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11438?: CVE-2017-11438 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2017-08-02.
How severe is CVE-2017-11438?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.