Medium 6.5Published Sep 26, 2025

CVE-2025-7691Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in GitLab

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 2:00 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-267
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/555786	issue-tracking, permissions-required, broken-link
https://hackerone.com/reports/3200469	technical-description, exploit, permissions-required

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