High severity · published Sep 26, 2025
CVE-2025-10871
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.6 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1
7.2
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.6 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1. Project Maintainers can exploit a vulnerability where they can assign custom roles to users with permissions exceeding their own, effectively granting themselves elevated privileges.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 32% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GI
GitLab · GitLab
16.6.0 before 18.2.7; 16.6.0 before 18.2.7; 18.3.0 before 18.3.3; 18.3.0 before 18.3.3; 18.4.0; 18.4.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10871
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-10871
Broken Link
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/569482
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