CVE-2025-8405 (GCVE-0-2025-8405)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-11 04:05
Modified
2025-12-12 04:55
Severity ?
8.7 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-116 - Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Summary
GitLab has remediated a security issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.1 before 18.4.6, 18.5 before 18.5.4, and 18.6 before 18.6.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to perform unauthorized actions on behalf of other users by injecting malicious HTML into vulnerability code flow displays.
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GitLab GitLab Version: 17.1   ≤
Version: 18.5   ≤
Version: 18.6   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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