CVE-2025-3396 (GCVE-0-2025-3396)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-10 08:31 – Updated: 2025-07-10 20:12
VLAI?
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 13.3 before 17.11.6, 18.0 before 18.0.4, and 18.1 before 18.1.2 that could have allowed authenticated project owners to bypass group-level forking restrictions by manipulating API requests.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/534636 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/3079956 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 13.3 , < 17.11.6 (semver)
Affected: 18.0 , < 18.0.4 (semver)
Affected: 18.1 , < 18.1.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [theluci](https://hackerone.com/theluci) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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