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ghsa-gxh9-4vgj-w44j

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-08-13 18:31

Modified

2025-08-13 18:31

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.0 prior to 18.0.6, 18.1 prior to 18.1.4, and 18.2 prior to 18.2.2 that could have allowed authenticated users with specific access to bypass merge request approval policies by manipulating approval rule identifiers.

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  "id": "GHSA-gxh9-4vgj-w44j",
  "modified": "2025-08-13T18:31:25Z",
  "published": "2025-08-13T18:31:25Z",
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CVE-2025-8770 (GCVE-0-2025-8770)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-08-13 17:26

Modified

2025-08-13 20:05

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-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Summary

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.0 prior to 18.0.6, 18.1 prior to 18.1.4, and 18.2 prior to 18.2.2 that could have allowed authenticated users with specific access to bypass merge request approval policies by manipulating approval rule identifiers.

References

URL

Tags

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/549105

issue-tracking, permissions-required

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	GitLab	GitLab	Version: 18.0 ≤ Version: 18.1 ≤ Version: 18.2 ≤ cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab::::::::

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