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CVE-2025-4979

Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in GitLab



Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 17.10.7, 17.11 before 17.11.3, and 18.0 before 18.0.1. An attacker may be able to reveal masked or hidden CI variables (that they did not author) in the WebUI, by simply creating their own variable and observing the HTTP response.

Reserved 2025-05-20 | Published 2025-05-22 | Updated 2025-05-22 | Assigner GitLab


MEDIUM: 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Problem types

CWE-1220: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 17.10.7
affected

17.11 before 17.11.3
affected

18.0 before 18.0.1
affected

Credits

This vulnerability was discovered internally by a GitLab team member. finder

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/524455 (GitLab Issue #524455) issue-tracking permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2025-4979)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-4979)

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