CVE-2025-8405 (GCVE-0-2025-8405)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-11 04:05 – Updated: 2025-12-12 04:55
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Summary
GitLab has remediated a security issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.1 before 18.4.6, 18.5 before 18.5.4, and 18.6 before 18.6.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to perform unauthorized actions on behalf of other users by injecting malicious HTML into vulnerability code flow displays.
Severity ?
8.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-116 - Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 17.1 , < 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 [yvvdwf](https://hackerone.com/yvvdwf) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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