CVE-2025-5819 (GCVE-0-2025-5819)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-13 17:26 – Updated: 2025-08-29 16:23
VLAI?
Title
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in GitLab
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.7 before 18.0.6, 18.1 before 18.1.4, and 18.2 before 18.2.2 that could have allowed authenticated users with developer access to obtain ID tokens for protected branches under certain circumstances.
Severity ?
5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/548165 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/3137660 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 15.7 , < 18.0.6 (semver)
Affected: 18.1 , < 18.1.4 (semver)
Affected: 18.2 , < 18.2.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [skybound](https://hackerone.com/skybound) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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