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CVE-2025-9486

Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab

Published: Aug 12, 2026Updated: Aug 19, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-266
3.3LOW
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 87.1%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 15.6 before 19.0.6, 19.1 before 19.1.4, and 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed a user with a pending membership to receive permissions granted by a custom role, due to incorrect privilege assignment that did not account for membership state.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:HPR:HUI:NS:UC:LI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:HPrivileges Required
High
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-266

Affected Products

GitLab
commercial·NLaka gitlab ce/ee
GitLabSaaSWeb App
DevTools & CI / ci-cd
and 1 more affected products View all →

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/565412
gitlab.com
https://hackerone.com/reports/3262844
hackerone.com
https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-2-2-released/
docs.gitlab.com

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