CVE-2025-2938

highpriority · track · 35EPSS 0.003 · 24 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.31% (24th) EPSS

CVSS 8.8 · high

Is it mine?

17 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

6 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.3 before 17.11.5, 18.0 before 18.0.3, and 18.1 before 18.1.1 that could have allowed authenticated users to gain elevated project privileges by requesting access to projects where role modifications during the approval process resulted in unintended permission grants.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–high · 3.1–8.8

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.13.1lowAV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.13.1lowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.13.1lowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nsecondary · cve@gitlab.comexploitability 1.6 · impact 1.4

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-840USCWE-840US

affected products (17)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Open Source GitLab <17.11.5all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source GitLab <18.0.3all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source GitLab <18.1.1all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source GitLab< 17.11.5cert_bundDE
Open Source GitLab< 18.0.3cert_bundDE
Open Source GitLab< 18.1.1cert_bundDE
GitLab GitLab17.3 → 17.11.5enisa_euvdEU
GitLab GitLab18.0 → 18.0.3enisa_euvdEU
GitLab GitLab18.1 → 18.1.1enisa_euvdEU
GitLab Inc. Gitlab10.7 → 17.11.5fstec_bduRU
GitLab Inc. Gitlab17.3 → 17.11.5fstec_bduRU
GitLab Inc. Gitlab18.1 → 18.1.1fstec_bduRU
gitlab gitlab17.3.0 → 17.11.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab18.0.0 → 18.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab= 18.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami gitlab17.3.0 → 18.0.1osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitlab
Bitnami gitlab≥ 18.1.0osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitlab

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-1394GitLab: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2025-06-24csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in GitLab ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen, seine Rechte zu erweitern oder einen Denial of Service zu verursachen.
BIT-gitlab-2025-2938Business Logic Errors in GitLab2025-06-30vendor · osvUS
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.3 before 17.11.5, 18.0 before 18.0.3, and 18.1 before 18.1.1 that could have allowed authenticated users to gain elevated project privileges by requesting access to projects where role modifications during the approval process resulted in unintended permission grants.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2025-06-26modified 2026-06-17

references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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