CVE-2025-7691 (GCVE-0-2025-7691)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-26 09:05
Modified
2025-09-27 03:55
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/555786Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/3200469Permissions Required
Impacted products
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GitLab GitLab Version: 16.6   ≤
Version: 18.3   ≤
Version: 18.4   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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