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CVE-2025-6168: Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

2.7 CVSS

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.0 before 18.0.4 and 18.1 before 18.1.2 that could have allowed authenticated maintainers to bypass group-level user invitation restrictions by sending crafted API requests.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-6168

CVSS Base Severity: LOW

CVSS Base Score: 2.7

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

Problem Types

CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Vendor: GitLab

Product: GitLab

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.01% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 0.94% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-07-10 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6168
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/549725
https://hackerone.com/reports/3196745

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