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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-05-26 07:43

Modified

2025-08-11 00:06

Summary

Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in GitLab

Details

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 17.10.7, 17.11 before 17.11.3, and 18.0 before 18.0.1. An attacker may be able to reveal masked or hidden CI variables (that they did not author) in the WebUI, by simply creating their own variable and observing the HTTP response.

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    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "gitlab",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/gitlab"
      },
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            },
            {
              "fixed": "17.11.3"
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              "introduced": "18.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "18.0.1"
            }
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          "type": "CVSS_V3"
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  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-4979"
  ],
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    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
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  "id": "BIT-gitlab-2025-4979",
  "modified": "2025-08-11T00:06:06.142Z",
  "published": "2025-05-26T07:43:31.883Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/524455"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4979"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in GitLab"
}

CVE-2025-4979 (GCVE-0-2025-4979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-22 13:30 – Updated: 2025-05-22 14:21

Title

Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in GitLab

Summary

Severity ?

4.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-1220 - Insufficient Granularity of Access Control

Assigner

GitLab

References

URL

Tags

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/524455

issue-trackingpermissions-required

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	GitLab	GitLab	Affected: 0 , < 17.10.7 (semver) Affected: 17.11 , < 17.11.3 (semver) Affected: 18.0 , < 18.0.1 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab::::::::

Credits

This vulnerability was discovered internally by a GitLab team member.

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                  },
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                    "Technical Impact": "partial"
                  }
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                "timestamp": "2025-05-22T14:21:13.148571Z",
                "version": "2.0.3"
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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2025-4979 (GCVE-0-2025-4979)

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