CVE-2025-13781 (GCVE-0-2025-13781)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-09 10:03 – Updated: 2026-01-09 19:14
VLAI?
Title
Missing Authorization in GitLab
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.5 before 18.5.5, 18.6 before 18.6.3, and 18.7 before 18.7.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to modify instance-wide AI feature provider settings by exploiting missing authorization checks in GraphQL mutations.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 18.5 , < 18.5.5 (semver)
Affected: 18.6 , < 18.6.3 (semver)
Affected: 18.7 , < 18.7.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [pwnie](https://hackerone.com/pwnie) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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