CVE-2025-5069 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.10 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to gain unauthorized access to confidential issues by creating a project with an identical name to the victim's project.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00014.

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/544926
https://hackerone.com/reports/3019236

History

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:15:00 +0000

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

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.10 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to gain unauthorized access to confidential issues by creating a project with an identical name to the victim's project.
Title		Incorrect Ownership Assignment in GitLab
First Time appeared		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses		CWE-708
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab::::::::
Vendors & Products		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab
References		https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/544926 https://hackerone.com/reports/3019236
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 3.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2025-09-26T09:11:09.636Z

Updated: 2025-09-26T13:12:27.389Z

Reserved: 2025-05-21T21:30:45.554Z

Link: CVE-2025-5069

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-09-26T13:12:23.015Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-09-26T10:15:47.217

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

Link: CVE-2025-5069

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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