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Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.2 before 17.11.5, 18.0 before 18.0.3, and 18.1 before 18.1.1 that could have allowed unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files to public projects by sending crafted API requests, potentially leading to resource abuse and unauthorized content storage.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-02-27 | Published 2025-06-26 | Updated 2025-06-26 | Assigner GitLab




MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Product status

Default status
unaffected

17.2 (semver) before 17.11.5
affected

18.0 (semver) before 18.0.3
affected

18.1 (semver) before 18.1.1
affected

Credits

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

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/521619 (GitLab Issue #521619) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/3009067 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3009067) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2025-1754)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-1754)

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