CVE-2025-11990 (GCVE-0-2025-11990)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-15 08:03 – Updated: 2025-11-17 20:11
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Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.4 before 18.4.4, and 18.5 before 18.5.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to gain CSRF tokens by exploiting improper input validation in repository references combined with redirect handling weaknesses.
Severity ?
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-177 - Improper Handling of URL Encoding (Hex Encoding)
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 18.4 , < 18.4.4 (semver)
Affected: 18.5 , < 18.5.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [swiftee](https://hackerone.com/swiftee) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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