CVE-2025-10871 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.6 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1. Project Maintainers can exploit a vulnerability where they can assign custom roles to users with permissions exceeding their own, effectively granting themselves elevated privileges.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00012.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gitlab	Gitlab

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Fixes

Solution

Upgrade to version 18.2.7, 18.3.3 or 18.4.1 or above.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/569482

History

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.6 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1. Project Maintainers can exploit a vulnerability where they can assign custom roles to users with permissions exceeding their own, effectively granting themselves elevated privileges.
Title		Missing Authorization in GitLab
First Time appeared		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses		CWE-862
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab::::::::
Vendors & Products		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab
References		https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/569482
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 3.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2025-09-26T09:04:21.687Z

Updated: 2025-09-26T15:34:04.768Z

Reserved: 2025-09-23T10:33:23.021Z

Link: CVE-2025-10871

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-09-26T15:34:01.023Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-09-26T09:15:31.193

Modified: 2025-09-26T14:32:19.853

Link: CVE-2025-10871

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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