CVE-2025-9642 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 14.10 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1 that could allow an attacker to inject malicious content that may lead to account takeover.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

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 0.00018.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

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/566505
https://hackerone.com/reports/3297413

History

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, '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 CE/EE affecting all versions from 14.10 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1 that could allow an attacker to inject malicious content that may lead to account takeover.
Title		Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in GitLab
First Time appeared		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab::::::::
Vendors & Products		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab
References		https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/566505 https://hackerone.com/reports/3297413
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2025-09-26T09:04:51.532Z

Updated: 2025-09-26T13:15:17.950Z

Reserved: 2025-08-29T05:33:46.692Z

Link: CVE-2025-9642

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-09-26T13:15:12.321Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-09-26T09:15:49.003

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

Link: CVE-2025-9642

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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