CVE-2025-8770 (GCVE-0-2025-8770)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-13 17:26 – Updated: 2025-08-13 20:05
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Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.0 prior to 18.0.6, 18.1 prior to 18.1.4, and 18.2 prior to 18.2.2 that could have allowed authenticated users with specific access to bypass merge request approval policies by manipulating approval rule identifiers.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/549105 issue-trackingpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 18.0 , < 18.0.6 (semver)
Affected: 18.1 , < 18.1.4 (semver)
Affected: 18.2 , < 18.2.2 (semver)
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Credits
This vulnerability has been discovered internally by GitLab team member [Dominic Bauer](https://gitlab.com/bauerdominic).
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