CVE-2025-12669 (GCVE-0-2025-12669)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-14 05:38 – Updated: 2026-05-14 17:47
VLAI?
Title
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') in GitLab
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.11 before 18.9.7, 18.10 before 18.10.6, and 18.11 before 18.11.3 that could have allowed an authenticated user to inject HTML and JavaScript into email notifications sent to other users due to improper input sanitization.
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 15.11 , < 18.9.7 (semver)
Affected: 18.10 , < 18.10.6 (semver)
Affected: 18.11 , < 18.11.3 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [ricardobrito](https://hackerone.com/ricardobrito) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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