CVE-2025-11340 (GCVE-0-2025-11340)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-09 12:04 – Updated: 2025-10-09 13:43
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Title
Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.3 to 18.3.4, 18.4 to 18.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed authenticated users with read-only API tokens to perform unauthorized write operations on vulnerability records by exploiting incorrectly scoped GraphQL mutations.
Severity ?
7.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 18.3 , < 18.3.4 (semver)
Affected: 18.4 , < 18.4.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
This vulnerability has been discovered internally by GitLab team member Brian Williams.
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