GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.3 before 18.4.5, 18.5 before 18.5.3, and 18.6 before 18.6.1 that under specific conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to join arbitrary organizations by changing headers on some requests.
Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

Upgrade to versions 18.4.5, 18.5.3, 18.6.1 or above.


Workaround

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History

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:00:00 +0000

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Description GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.3 before 18.4.5, 18.5 before 18.5.3, and 18.6 before 18.6.1 that under specific conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to join arbitrary organizations by changing headers on some requests.
Title Authentication Bypass by Spoofing in GitLab
First Time appeared Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses CWE-290
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-26T19:46:12.641Z

Reserved: 2025-11-03T20:33:36.697Z

Link: CVE-2025-12653

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-11-26T20:15:49.023

Modified: 2025-11-26T20:15:49.023

Link: CVE-2025-12653

cve-icon Redhat

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