CVE-2025-13978 PUBLISHED

Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information in GitLab

Assigner: GitLab
Reserved: 03.12.2025 Published: 11.12.2025 Updated: 11.12.2025

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.5 before 18.4.6, 18.5 before 18.5.4, and 18.6 before 18.6.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to discover the names of private projects they do not have access through API requests.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.3

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	Low
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	GitLab
Product	GitLab
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 17.5 to 18.4.6 (excl.) affected from 18.5 to 18.5.4 (excl.) affected from 18.6 to 18.6.2 (excl.)

Solutions

Upgrade to versions 18.4.6, 18.5.4, 18.6.2 or above.

Credits

This vulnerability has been discovered internally by GitLab team member Rohit Shambhuni finder

References

Problem Types

CWE-209: Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information CWE