CVE-2025-5846 (GCVE-0-2025-5846)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-26 05:31 – Updated: 2025-06-26 13:22
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Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.10 before 17.11.5, 18.0 before 18.0.3, and 18.1 before 18.1.1 that could have allowed authenticated users to assign unrelated compliance frameworks to projects by sending crafted GraphQL mutations that bypassed framework-specific permission checks.
Severity ?
2.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/546435 issue-trackingpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 16.10 , < 17.11.5 (semver)
Affected: 18.0 , < 18.0.3 (semver)
Affected: 18.1 , < 18.1.1 (semver)
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Credits
This vulnerability was reported internally by a GitLab team member, [Joern Schneeweisz](https://gitlab.com/joernchen).
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