CVE-2025-11340: Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

Severity: high (CVSS 7.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-10-09 · updated 2026-10-19
Weakness: CWE-863

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.3 to 18.3.4, 18.4 to 18.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed authenticated users with read-only API tokens to perform unauthorized write operations on vulnerability records by exploiting incorrectly scoped GraphQL mutations.

Affected products

GitLab: from 18.3.0 before 18.3.4; from 18.4.0 before 18.4.2 — fixed in 18.3.4, 18.4.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 18.3.4, 18.4.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/10/08/patch-release-gitlab-18-4-2-released/
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/567847

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