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Description

A privilege escalation issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.6 prior to 18.2.7, 18.3 prior to 18.3.3, and 18.4 prior to 18.4.1 that could have allowed a developer with specific group management permissions to escalate their privileges and obtain unauthorized access to additional system capabilities.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-07-15 | Published 2025-09-26 | Updated 2025-09-27 | Assigner GitLab




MEDIUM: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Problem types

CWE-267: Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions

Product status

Default status
unaffected

16.6 before 18.2.7
affected

18.3 before 18.3.3
affected

18.4 before 18.4.1
affected

Credits

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

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/555786 (GitLab Issue #555786) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/3200469 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3200469) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2025-7691)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-7691)

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