CVE-2025-2498 (GCVE-0-2025-2498)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-13 17:27
Modified
2025-08-13 20:02
Severity ?
3.1 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-1220 - Insufficient Granularity of Access Control
Summary
An improper access control in Gitlab EE affecting all versions from 12.0 prior to 18.0.6, 18.1 prior to 18.1.4, and 18.2 prior to 18.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed users to view assigned issues from restricted groups by bypassing IP restrictions.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/525515Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/3037722Permissions Required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Version: 12.0   ≤
Version: 18.1   ≤
Version: 18.2   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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