CVE-2025-6601 (GCVE-0-2025-6601)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-27 00:06 – Updated: 2025-11-24 07:26
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Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.4 before 18.4.3, and 18.5 before 18.5.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed authenticated users to gain unauthorized project access by exploiting the access request approval workflow.
Severity ?
2.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 18.4 , < 18.4.3 (semver)
Affected: 18.5 , < 18.5.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [mateuszek](https://hackerone.com/mateuszek) and [rhidayahh](https://hackerone.com/rhidayahh) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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