CVE-2025-11971

Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Oct 27, 2025
Updated: Oct 28, 2025
Reserved: Oct 20, 2025

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 10.6 before 18.3.5, 18.4 before 18.4.3, and 18.5 before 18.5.1 that could have allowed an authenticated attacker to trigger unauthorized pipeline executions by manipulating commits.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	10.6 to before 18.3.5Affected 18.4 to before 18.4.3Affected 18.5 to before 18.5.1Affected

References

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/10/22/patch-release-gitlab-18-5-1-released/
GitLab Issue #566587issue-trackingpermissions-required

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