CVE-2025-2242
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-27 12:30
Modified
2025-03-27 13:11
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An improper access control vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.4 prior to 17.8.6, 17.9 prior to 17.9.3, and 17.10 prior to 17.10.1 allows a user who was an instance admin before but has since been downgraded to a regular user to continue to maintain elevated privileges to groups and projects.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/516271
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Version: 17.4   ≤
Version: 17.9   ≤
Version: 17.10   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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