CVE-2025-13781 | THREATINT

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.5 before 18.5.5, 18.6 before 18.6.3, and 18.7 before 18.7.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to modify instance-wide AI feature provider settings by exploiting missing authorization checks in GraphQL mutations.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-11-28 | Published 2026-01-09 | Updated 2026-01-09 | Assigner GitLab

MEDIUM: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Problem types

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status

unaffected

18.5 (semver) before 18.5.5

affected

18.6 (semver) before 18.6.3

affected

18.7 (semver) before 18.7.1

affected

Credits

Thanks [pwnie](https://hackerone.com/pwnie) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program finder

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/578756 (GitLab Issue #578756) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/3400940 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3400940) technical-description exploit permissions-required

about.gitlab.com/...07/patch-release-gitlab-18-7-1-released/

cve.org (CVE-2025-13781)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-13781)

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