🛡️ CVE-2025-5819 — gitlab

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-732 OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in GitLab

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.7 before 18.0.6, 18.1 before 18.1.4, and 18.2 before 18.2.2 that could have allowed authenticated users with developer access to obtain ID tokens for protected branches under certain circumstances.

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 changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-5819 is classified as CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. A sensitive resource is assigned permissions that let unintended actors read or modify it.

Affected software

CVE-2025-5819 is recorded against 1 package.

  • gitlab

Timeline and source

Published on 18 August 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)

CVE-2025-5819 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-732
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-08-18
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gitlab — —

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