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Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 13.3 before 17.11.6, 18.0 before 18.0.4, and 18.1 before 18.1.2 that could have allowed authenticated project owners to bypass group-level forking restrictions by manipulating API requests.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-04-07 | Published 2025-07-10 | Updated 2025-07-10 | Assigner GitLab




MEDIUM: 4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Problem types

CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

13.3 (semver) before 17.11.6
affected

18.0 (semver) before 18.0.4
affected

18.1 (semver) before 18.1.2
affected

Credits

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

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/534636 (GitLab Issue #534636) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/3079956 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3079956) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2025-3396)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-3396)

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