CVE-2025-1278 (GCVE-0-2025-1278)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-09 16:13 – Updated: 2025-05-09 20:03
VLAI
Title
Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in GitLab
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.0 before 17.9.8, 17.10 before 17.10.6, and 17.11 before 17.11.2. Under certain conditions users could bypass IP access restrictions and view sensitive information.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-1220 - Insufficient Granularity of Access Control
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/519580 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2977149 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 12.0 , < 17.9.8 (semver)
Affected: 17.10 , < 17.10.6 (semver)
Affected: 17.11 , < 17.11.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [iamgk808](https://hackerone.com/iamgk808) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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