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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-08-30 09:03

Modified

2025-09-03 09:06

Summary

Missing Authorization in GitLab

Details

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 18.1.5, 18.2 before 18.2.5, and 18.3 before 18.3.1 that could have allowed unauthenticated users to access sensitive manual CI/CD variables by querying the GraphQL API.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "gitlab",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/gitlab"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "18.1.5"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "18.2.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "18.2.5"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "18.3.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "18.3.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-2246"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 18.1.5, 18.2 before 18.2.5, and 18.3 before 18.3.1 that could have allowed unauthenticated users to access sensitive manual CI/CD variables by querying the GraphQL API.",
  "id": "BIT-gitlab-2025-2246",
  "modified": "2025-09-03T09:06:51.338Z",
  "published": "2025-08-30T09:03:36.978Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/524592"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://hackerone.com/reports/3026559"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2246"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Missing Authorization in GitLab"
}

CVE-2025-2246 (GCVE-0-2025-2246)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-27 19:34 – Updated: 2025-08-27 19:49

Title

Missing Authorization in GitLab

Summary

Severity ?

5.8 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

Assigner

GitLab

References

URL

Tags

	https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/524592	issue-trackingpermissions-required
	https://hackerone.com/reports/3026559	technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	GitLab	GitLab	Affected: 0 , < 18.1.5 (semver) Affected: 18.2 , < 18.2.5 (semver) Affected: 18.3 , < 18.3.1 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab::::::::

Credits

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

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                  },
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                  }
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                "timestamp": "2025-08-27T19:49:50.314158Z",
                "version": "2.0.3"
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          "repo": "git://git@gitlab.com:gitlab-org/gitlab.git",
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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2025-2246 (GCVE-0-2025-2246)

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