Medium severity · published Oct 27, 2025
CVE-2025-11971
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 10.6 before 18.3.5, 18.4 before 18.4.3, and 18.5 before 18.5.1 that could have allowed an authenticated…
6.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 10.6 before 18.3.5, 18.4 before 18.4.3, and 18.5 before 18.5.1 that could have allowed an authenticated attacker to trigger unauthorized pipeline executions by manipulating commits.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 16% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GI
GitLab · GitLab
10.6.0 before 18.3.5; 18.4.0 before 18.4.3; 18.5.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11971
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11971
Release Notes
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/10/22/patch-release-gitlab-18-5-1-released/
Broken Link
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/566587
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