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Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.10 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to gain unauthorized access to confidential issues by creating a project with an identical name to the victim's project.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-05-21 | Published 2025-09-26 | Updated 2025-09-26 | Assigner GitLab




LOW: 3.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Problem types

CWE-708: Incorrect Ownership Assignment

Product status

Default status
unaffected

17.10 before 18.2.7
affected

18.3 before 18.3.3
affected

18.4 before 18.4.1
affected

Credits

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

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/544926 (GitLab Issue #544926) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/3019236 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3019236) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2025-5069)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-5069)

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