CVE-2025-9486

Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab

Published Aug 12, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 3.3 Low EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 15.6 before 19.0.6, 19.1 before 19.1.4, and 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed a user with a pending membership to receive permissions granted by a custom role, due to incorrect privilege assignment that did not account for membership state.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

Upgrade to versions 19.0.6, 19.1.4, 19.2.2 or above.

Tracking

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Advisories

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 15.6 before 19.0.6, 19.1 before 19.1.4, and 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed a user with a pending membership to receive permissions granted by a custom role, due to incorrect privilege assignment that did not account for membership state.
Title Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab
First Time appeared Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses CWE-266
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitLab
Published
Updated
Aug 13, 2026, 12:30 PM
Reserved
Aug 26, 2025, 12:05 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Aug 12, 2026, 8:17 PM
Modified
Sep 29, 2026, 10:10 AM