CVE-2025-5121
A missing authorization check may have allowed compliance frameworks to be applied to projects outside the compliance framework's group.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.4%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.11 before 17.11.4 and 18.0 before 18.0.2. A missing authorization check may have allowed compliance frameworks to be applied to projects outside the compliance framework's group.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.9 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 12.44% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Affected
- gitlab/gitlab
- Source
- cve@gitlab.com
EPSS moved from 12.4% on 21 September 2026 to 12.4% on 1 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/545429Broken Link
- https://hackerone.com/reports/3153908Permissions Required
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.