CVE-2025-2938 | THREATINT

Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-03-28 | Published 2025-06-26 | Updated 2026-02-26 | Assigner GitLab

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

Problem types

CWE-840: Business Logic Errors

Product status

Default status

unaffected

17.3 (semver) before 17.11.5

affected

18.0 (semver) before 18.0.3

affected

18.1 (semver) before 18.1.1

affected

Credits

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

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/529006 (GitLab Issue #529006) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/3063091 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3063091) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2025-2938)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-2938)

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