CVE-2025-9486 PUBLISHED

Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab

Assigner: GitLab
Reserved: 26.08.2025 Published: 12.08.2026 Updated: 13.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 3.3

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

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	GitLab
Product	GitLab
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 15.6 to 19.0.6 (excl.) affected from 19.1 to 19.1.4 (excl.) affected from 19.2 to 19.2.2 (excl.)

Solutions

Upgrade to versions 19.0.6, 19.1.4, 19.2.2 or above.

Credits

Thanks [mateuszek](https://hackerone.com/mateuszek) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program finder

References

Problem Types

CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment CWE