CVE-2025-9486
Received
Received - Intake
Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab EE Due to Pending Membership
Vulnerability report for CVE-2025-9486, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-08-12
Last updated on: 2026-08-12
Assigner: GitLab Inc.
Description
Description
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.
CVSS Scores
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| gitlab | gitlab_ee | From 15.6 (inc) to 19.0.6 (exc) |
| gitlab | gitlab_ee | From 19.1 (inc) to 19.1.4 (exc) |
| gitlab | gitlab_ee | From 19.2 (inc) to 19.2.2 (exc) |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-266 | A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. |
