CVE-2025-7691 (GCVE-0-2025-7691)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-26 09:05
Modified
2025-09-27 03:55
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CWE
- CWE-267 - Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
Summary
A privilege escalation issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.6 prior to 18.2.7, 18.3 prior to 18.3.3, and 18.4 prior to 18.4.1 that could have allowed a developer with specific group management permissions to escalate their privileges and obtain unauthorized access to additional system capabilities.
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Nomenclature
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