CVE-2025-12697
Received Received - Intake
Credential Exposure via Privilege Escalation in GitLab CE/EE

Publication date: 2026-03-11

Last updated on: 2026-03-17

Assigner: GitLab Inc.

Description
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.5 before 18.7.6, 18.8 before 18.8.6, and 18.9 before 18.9.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user with maintainer-role permissions to reveal Datadog API credentials under certain conditions.
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Published
2026-03-11
Last Modified
2026-03-17
Generated
2026-06-16
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2026-03-11
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-14
NVD
CVE-2025-12697
EUVD
EUVD-2025-208571
Affected Vendors & Products
Showing 6 associated CPEs
Vendor Product Version / Range
gitlab gitlab From 18.8.0 (inc) to 18.8.6 (exc)
gitlab gitlab From 18.9.0 (inc) to 18.9.2 (exc)
gitlab gitlab From 18.8.0 (inc) to 18.8.6 (exc)
gitlab gitlab From 18.9.0 (inc) to 18.9.2 (exc)
gitlab gitlab From 15.5.0 (inc) to 18.7.6 (exc)
gitlab gitlab From 15.5.0 (inc) to 18.7.6 (exc)
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CWE ID Description
CWE-116 The product prepares a structured message for communication with another component, but encoding or escaping of the data is either missing or done incorrectly. As a result, the intended structure of the message is not preserved.
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Executive Summary

This vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affects versions from 15.5 before 18.7.6, 18.8 before 18.8.6, and 18.9 before 18.9.2. It could allow an authenticated user with maintainer-role permissions to reveal Datadog API credentials under certain conditions.

Impact Analysis

The impact of this vulnerability is that an authenticated maintainer could gain access to sensitive Datadog API credentials. This could potentially lead to unauthorized access to monitoring data or manipulation of monitoring services associated with the affected GitLab instance.

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Mitigation Strategies

To mitigate this vulnerability, update GitLab CE/EE to a fixed version. Specifically, upgrade to version 18.7.6 or later if you are using 15.5 to before 18.7.6, to 18.8.6 or later if using 18.8 before 18.8.6, or to 18.9.2 or later if using 18.9 before 18.9.2.

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