GitLab EE Privilege Escalation (EE) 16.618.2.7, 18.318.3.3, 18.418.4.1
CVE-2025-7691 Published on September 26, 2025
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in GitLab
A privilege escalation issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.6 prior to 18.2.7, 18.3 prior to 18.3.3, and 18.4 prior to 18.4.1 that could have allowed a developer with specific group management permissions to escalate their privileges and obtain unauthorized access to additional system capabilities.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-7691 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
A particular privilege, role, capability, or right can be used to perform unsafe actions that were not intended, even when it is assigned to the correct entity.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-7691
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Affected Versions
GitLab:- Version 16.6 and below 18.2.7 is affected.
- Version 18.3 and below 18.3.3 is affected.
- Version 18.4 and below 18.4.1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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