Privilege Escalation in GitLab EE via Pending Membership (15.6-19.2)
CVE-2025-9486 Published on August 12, 2026
Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 15.6 before 19.0.6, 19.1 before 19.1.4, and 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed a user with a pending membership to receive permissions granted by a custom role, due to incorrect privilege assignment that did not account for membership state.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-9486 is exploitable with network access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. Public availability of a proof of concept (POC) exploit exists for CVE-2025-9486. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality and integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-9486
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Affected Versions
GitLab:- Version 15.6 and below 19.0.6 is affected.
- Version 19.1 and below 19.1.4 is affected.
- Version 19.2 and below 19.2.2 is affected.