🛡️ CVE-2025-3396 — gitlab

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-863 OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 13.3 before 17.11.6, 18.0 before 18.0.4, and 18.1 before 18.1.2 that could have allowed authenticated project owners to bypass group-level forking restrictions by manipulating API requests.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-3396 is classified as CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization. An authorisation check runs but reaches the wrong conclusion, permitting actions it should refuse.

Affected software

CVE-2025-3396 is recorded against 1 package.

  • gitlab

Timeline and source

Published on 16 July 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

gitlab.com (Web)
hackerone.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-863
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-07-16
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gitlab

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