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CVE-2025-7000 (GCVE-0-2025-7000)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-15 08:04 – Updated: 2025-11-17 20:14
VLAI
Title
Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data in GitLab
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.6 before 18.3.6, 18.4 before 18.4.4, and 18.5 before 18.5.2, that, under specific conditions, could have allowed unauthorized users to view confidential branch names by accessing project issues with related merge requests.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-17 20:14 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-201 - Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/11/12/patc…
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/553129 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/3214025 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: 17.6 , < 18.3.6 (semver)
Affected: 18.4 , < 18.4.4 (semver)
Affected: 18.5 , < 18.5.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [weasterhacker](https://hackerone.com/weasterhacker) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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