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Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2025-4979: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control

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Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2025-4979: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/22/2025
Created
06/04/2025
Added
06/03/2025
Modified
06/03/2025

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 17.10.7, 17.11 before 17.11.3, and 18.0 before 18.0.1. An attacker may be able to reveal masked or hidden CI variables (that they did not author) in the WebUI, by simply creating their own variable and observing the HTTP response.

Solution(s)

  • gitlab-gitlab-upgrade-latest

References

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