Low 3.8Published Sep 26, 2025

CVE-2025-10871Missing Authorization in GitLab

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 5:00 PM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.6 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1. Project Maintainers can exploit a vulnerability where they can assign custom roles to users with permissions exceeding their own, effectively granting themselves elevated privileges.

CVSS: 3.8 LOW (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Weakness (CWE): CWE-862
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitLab
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Feb 26, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 19, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

GitLab GitLab gitlab:gitlab	from 16.6 before 18.2.7; from 18.3 before 18.3.3; from 18.4 before 18.4.1	CNA record
gitlab gitlab gitlab:gitlab	from 16.6.0 before 18.2.7; from 16.6.0 before 18.2.7; from 18.3.0 before 18.3.3; from 18.3.0 before 18.3.3; 18.4.0; 18.4.0	NVD

References

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/569482	issue-tracking, permissions-required, broken-link

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