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CVE-2025-5069 (GCVE-0-2025-5069)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-26 09:11 – Updated: 2025-09-26 13:12
VLAI
Title
Incorrect Ownership Assignment in GitLab
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.10 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to gain unauthorized access to confidential issues by creating a project with an identical name to the victim's project.
Severity
3.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-26 13:11 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-708 - Incorrect Ownership Assignment
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/544926 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/3019236 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: 17.10 , < 18.2.7 (semver)
Affected: 18.3 , < 18.3.3 (semver)
Affected: 18.4 , < 18.4.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [foxribeye](https://hackerone.com/foxribeye) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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