CVE-2025-5846

LOW

GitLab EE <17.11.5-18.1.1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.10 before 17.11.5, 18.0 before 18.0.3, and 18.1 before 18.1.1 that could have allowed authenticated users to assign unrelated compliance frameworks to projects by sending crafted GraphQL mutations that bypassed framework-specific permission checks.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Broken Link issue-tracking permissions-required
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/546435

Scores

CVSS v3 2.7
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 20.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-862
Status published
Products (2)
gitlab/gitlab 18.1.0
gitlab/gitlab 16.10.0 - 17.11.5
Published Jun 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026