CVE-2025-9642 (GCVE-0-2025-9642)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-26 09:04
Modified
2025-09-26 13:15
Severity ?
8.7 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 14.10 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1 that could allow an attacker to inject malicious content that may lead to account takeover.
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Impacted products
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GitLab GitLab Version: 14.10   ≤
Version: 18.3   ≤
Version: 18.4   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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