CVE-2025-12029 (GCVE-0-2025-12029)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-11 07:32 – Updated: 2025-12-12 04:55
VLAI?
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.11 before 18.4.6, 18.5 before 18.5.4, and 18.6 before 18.6.2 that could have, under certain circumstances, allowed an unauthenticated user to perform unauthorized actions on behalf of another user by injecting malicious external scripts into the Swagger UI."
Severity ?
8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 15.11 , < 18.4.6 (semver)
Affected: 18.5 , < 18.5.4 (semver)
Affected: 18.6 , < 18.6.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [x0abcd_](https://hackerone.com/x0abcd_) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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