🛡️ CVE-2025-5846 — gitlab

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-862 OSV

5.0

CVSS Score

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Description

Missing Authorization in GitLab

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.10 before 17.11.5, 18.0 before 18.0.3, and 18.1 before 18.1.1 that could have allowed authenticated users to assign unrelated compliance frameworks to projects by sending crafted GraphQL mutations that bypassed framework-specific permission checks.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

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

Weakness class

CVE-2025-5846 is classified as CWE-862: Missing Authorization. No authorisation check is performed before carrying out a restricted action.

Affected software

CVE-2025-5846 is recorded against 1 package.

gitlab

Timeline and source

Published on 30 June 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)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

CVE-2025-5846 on other distributions

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

Ubuntu

Details

Severity MEDIUM

CVSS Score 5.0

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CWE CWE-862

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2025-06-30

Updated 2026-08-12

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
gitlab	—	—

References

WEB https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/546435

WEB https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5846

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