CVE-2025-7691: GitLab

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A privilege escalation issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.6 prior to 18.2.7, 18.3 prior to 18.3.3, and 18.4 prior to 18.4.1 that could have allowed a developer with specific group management permissions to escalate their privileges and obtain unauthorized access to additional system capabilities.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 16.6.0, before 18.2.7 (fixed in 18.2.7); from 18.3.0, before 18.3.3 (fixed in 18.3.3); version 18.4.0 only

Published 2025-09-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.