CVE-2025-2938: GitLab

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.3 before 17.11.5, 18.0 before 18.0.3, and 18.1 before 18.1.1 that could have allowed authenticated users to gain elevated project privileges by requesting access to projects where role modifications during the approval process resulted in unintended permission grants.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 17.3.0, before 17.11.5 (fixed in 17.11.5); from 18.0.0, before 18.0.3 (fixed in 18.0.3); version 18.1.0 only

Published 2025-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.