CVE-2025-5069 (GCVE-0-2025-5069)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-26 09:11 – Updated: 2025-09-26 13:12
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Incorrect Ownership Assignment in GitLab
Summary
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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-26 13:11 UTC
CWE
- CWE-708 - Incorrect Ownership Assignment
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/544926 | issue-trackingpermissions-required |
| https://hackerone.com/reports/3019236 | technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required |
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