CVE-2025-8770: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.0 prior to 18.0.6, 18.1 prior to 18.1.4, and 18.2 prior to 18.2.2 that could have allowed authenticated users with specific access to bypass merge request approval policies by manipulating approval rule identifiers.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 18.0.0, before 18.0.6 (fixed in 18.0.6); from 18.1.0, before 18.1.4 (fixed in 18.1.4); from 18.2.0, before 18.2.2 (fixed in 18.2.2)

Published 2025-08-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.