CVE-2025-9486

LOW 3.3

Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab

CVSS Score

3.3

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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.

CWE	CWE-266
Vendor	gitlab
Product	gitlab
Ecosystems	DevTools
Industries	Technology
Published	Aug 12, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Affected Versions

GitLab / GitLab

15.6 < 19.0.6 19.1 < 19.1.4 19.2 < 19.2.2

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

gitlab.com: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/565412 hackerone.com: https://hackerone.com/reports/3262844 docs.gitlab.com: https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-2-2-released/

Credits

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