FKIE_CVE-2025-5101

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-27 20:15 - Updated: 2025-09-02 17:47
Severity ?
5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 18.1.5, 18.2 before 18.2.5, and 18.3 before 18.3.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated attacker to distribute malicious code that appears harmless in the web interface by taking advantage of ambiguity between branches and tags during repository imports.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/545165Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/3124199Permissions Required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab 18.3.0
gitlab gitlab 18.3.0
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