Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2025-12-02 12:03
Modified
2025-12-11 12:06
Summary
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing in GitLab
Details

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.3 before 18.4.5, 18.5 before 18.5.3, and 18.6 before 18.6.1 that under specific conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to join arbitrary organizations by changing headers on some requests.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "gitlab",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/gitlab"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "18.3.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "18.4.5"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "18.5.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "18.5.3"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "18.6.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "18.6.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-12653"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.3 before 18.4.5, 18.5 before 18.5.3, and 18.6 before 18.6.1 that under specific conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to join arbitrary organizations by changing headers on some requests.",
  "id": "BIT-gitlab-2025-12653",
  "modified": "2025-12-11T12:06:55.559Z",
  "published": "2025-12-02T12:03:41.060Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/579372"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://hackerone.com/reports/3370245"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12653"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/11/26/patch-release-gitlab-18-6-1-released/"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Authentication Bypass by Spoofing in GitLab"
}


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