CWE-708
Incorrect Ownership Assignment
The product assigns an owner to a resource, but the owner is outside of the intended control sphere.
CVE-2025-5069 (GCVE-0-2025-5069)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-26 09:11
Modified
2025-09-26 13:12
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-708 - Incorrect Ownership Assignment
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.10 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to gain unauthorized access to confidential issues by creating a project with an identical name to the victim's project.
References
▼ | URL | Tags |
---|---|---|
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/544926 | issue-tracking, permissions-required | |
https://hackerone.com/reports/3019236 | technical-description, exploit, permissions-required |
Impacted products
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Mitigation
Phase: Policy
Description:
- Periodically review the privileges and their owners.
Mitigation
Phase: Testing
Description:
- Use automated tools to check for privilege settings.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.