CVE-2025-8770

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Aug 13, 2025
Updated: Aug 13, 2025
Reserved: Aug 8, 2025

Description

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.

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-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	18.0 to before 18.0.6Affected 18.1 to before 18.1.4Affected 18.2 to before 18.2.2Affected

References

GitLab Issue #549105issue-trackingpermissions-required

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