CVE-2025-9486 (GCVE-0-2025-9486)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-12 19:05
Modified
2026-08-13 12:30
Severity ?
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
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GitLab GitLab Version: 15.6   ≤
Version: 19.1   ≤
Version: 19.2   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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