CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-5069

Incorrect Ownership Assignment

Published: Sep 26, 2025 | Modified: Sep 29, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.10 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to gain unauthorized access to confidential issues by creating a project with an identical name to the victims project.

Weakness

The product assigns an owner to a resource, but the owner is outside of the intended control sphere.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
GitlabGitlab17.10.0 (including)18.2.7 (excluding)
GitlabGitlab18.3.0 (including)18.3.3 (excluding)
GitlabGitlab18.4.0 (including)18.4.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References