CVE-2025-6601 (GCVE-0-2025-6601)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-27 00:06
Modified
2025-10-28 15:18
Severity ?
2.7 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.4 before 18.4.3, and 18.5 before 18.5.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed authenticated users to gain unauthorized project access by exploiting the access request approval workflow.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Version: 18.4   ≤
Version: 18.5   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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