CVE-2025-9486

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.

CVSS v3 3.3 LOW

3.3^/10

CVSS v3 : LOW

Vector :

Exploitability : 0.7 / Impact : 2.5

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-2-2-released/	Release Notes
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/565412	Broken Link
https://hackerone.com/reports/3262844	Permissions Required

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*

History

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Information

Published : 2026-08-12 20:17

Updated : 2026-08-19 16:32

NVD link : CVE-2025-9486

Mitre link : CVE-2025-9486

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-9486

JSON object : View

Products Affected

gitlab

gitlab

CWE

CWE-266

Incorrect Privilege Assignment

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