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CVE-2025-9486

Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab

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.

Public exploit

An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.

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Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By GitLab

  2. · 12 months later

    Published

  3. · 1 day later

    Record updated

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

CVSS scores of CVE-2025-9486, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
GitLabCNA (assigner)3.1Low3.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVDNVD · Analyzed3.1Low3.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.34% · top 72% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.

Affected products

  • GitLab · GitLab

    • affected 15.6 – < 19.0.6
    • affected 19.1 – < 19.1.4
    • affected 19.2 – < 19.2.2

What to do

Solution: Upgrade to versions 19.0.6, 19.1.4, 19.2.2 or above.

References

3

Sources

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