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.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/566505Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/3297413Permissions Required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Version: 14.10   ≤
Version: 18.3   ≤
Version: 18.4   ≤
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