CVE-2025-2246 (GCVE-0-2025-2246)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-27 19:34
Modified
2025-08-27 19:49
Severity ?
5.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 18.1.5, 18.2 before 18.2.5, and 18.3 before 18.3.1 that could have allowed unauthenticated users to access sensitive manual CI/CD variables by querying the GraphQL API.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/524592Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/3026559Permissions Required
Impacted products
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GitLab GitLab Version: 0   ≤
Version: 18.2   ≤
Version: 18.3   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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