CVE-2025-12697

Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 2.2 Low
Published: Mar 11, 2026
Updated: Mar 11, 2026
Reserved: Nov 4, 2025

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.5 before 18.7.6, 18.8 before 18.8.6, and 18.9 before 18.9.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user with maintainer-role permissions to reveal Datadog API credentials under certain conditions.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	2.2 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	15.5 to before 18.7.6Affected 18.8 to before 18.8.6Affected 18.9 to before 18.9.2Affected

References

HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3341953technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/579504
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/03/11/patch-release-gitlab-18-9-2-released/

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