CVE-2025-5846Missing Authorization in GitLab
- 2.7LowCVSS base score
- 0.27%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 80% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.10 before 17.11.5, 18.0 before 18.0.3, and 18.1 before 18.1.1 that could have allowed authenticated users to assign unrelated compliance frameworks to projects by sending crafted GraphQL mutations that bypassed framework-specific permission checks.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitLab
- 19 days later
· 19 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitLabCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low2.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.27% · top 80% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.7.
Affected products
What to do
Solution: Upgrade to versions 17.11.5, 18.0.3, 18.1.1 or above.
References
References1
- GitLab Issue #546435 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingpermissions-required
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-19172 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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