CVE-2025-11865 (GCVE-0-2025-11865)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-15 08:03 – Updated: 2025-11-17 20:12
VLAI
Title
Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.1 before 18.3.6, 18.4 before 18.4.4, and 18.5 before 18.5.2 that, under certain circumstances, could have allowed an attacker to remove Duo flows of another user.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 18.1 , < 18.3.6 (semver)
Affected: 18.4 , < 18.4.4 (semver)
Affected: 18.5 , < 18.5.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
This vulnerability has been discovered internally by GitLab team member [Dylan Griffith](https://gitlab.com/DylanGriffith).
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