CVE-2025-7691
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in GitLab
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- Sep 26, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- Reserved
- Jul 15, 2025
Description
A privilege escalation issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.6 prior to 18.2.7, 18.3 prior to 18.3.3, and 18.4 prior to 18.4.1 that could have allowed a developer with specific group management permissions to escalate their privileges and obtain unauthorized access to additional system capabilities.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N | GitLab |
Weaknesses
- CWE-267 Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
GitLabGitLab |
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References
- GitLab Issue #555786issue-trackingpermissions-required
- HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3200469technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
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