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

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

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gitlab Gitlab 17.10.0 (including) 18.2.7 (excluding)
Gitlab Gitlab 18.3.0 (including) 18.3.3 (excluding)
Gitlab Gitlab 18.4.0 (including) 18.4.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References