fkie_cve-2025-10871
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-09-26 09:15
Modified
2025-09-29 13:09
Severity ?
3.8 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.6 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1. Project Maintainers can exploit a vulnerability where they can assign custom roles to users with permissions exceeding their own, effectively granting themselves elevated privileges.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/569482Broken Link
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab 18.4.0
gitlab gitlab 18.4.0


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