CVE-2025-5069 (GCVE-0-2025-5069)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-26 09:11
Modified
2025-09-26 13:12
Severity ?
3.5 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-708 - Incorrect Ownership Assignment
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.10 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to gain unauthorized access to confidential issues by creating a project with an identical name to the victim's project.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/544926Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/3019236Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Version: 17.10   ≤
Version: 18.3   ≤
Version: 18.4   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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