CVE-2025-1250

MEDIUM

GitLab CE/EE <18.1.6-18.3.2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.0 before 18.1.6, 18.2 before 18.2.6, and 18.3 before 18.3.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to stall background job processing by sending specially crafted commit messages, merge request descriptions, or notes.

References (3)

[Release Notes, Vendor Advisory] https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/09/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-3-2-released/

[Broken Link] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/519335

[Permissions Required] https://hackerone.com/reports/2903896

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0005

EPSS Percentile 14.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-770

Status published

Affected Products (2)

gitlab/gitlab < 18.1.6

gitlab/gitlab < 18.1.6

Timeline

Published Sep 12, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026