CVE-2025-7691
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.
Scoring
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS base score
- 6.5
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.37%
- CWE
- CWE-267
- Published
- 2025-09-26
- Last modified
- 2026-03-12
Affected products
- GitLab GitLab
- GitLab GitLab
- GitLab GitLab
Weakness type
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