GitLab has released security updates for its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) to fix eight vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw (CVE-2024-9164) with a CVSS score of 9.6. This bug, affecting versions from 12.5 to 17.4.1, allows Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to run on arbitrary branches. Other flaws include high-severity vulnerabilities like CVE-2024-8970, which lets attackers trigger pipelines as other users, and CVE-2024-8977, enabling SSRF attacks. While no active exploitation has been reported, users are urged to update their GitLab instances to the latest version to protect against potential risks.