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CVE-2025-12029: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in GitLab

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-11 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.11 before 18.4.6, 18.5 before 18.5.4, and 18.6 before 18.6.2 that could have, under certain circumstances, allowed an unauthenticated user to perform unauthorized actions on behalf of another user by injecting malicious external scripts into the Swagger UI."

Affected products

• GitLab: from 15.11.0 before 18.4.6; from 18.5.0 before 18.5.4; from 18.6.0 before 18.6.2 — fixed in 18.4.6, 18.5.4, 18.6.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 18.4.6, 18.5.4, 18.6.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/12/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-6-2-released/
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/577975
• https://hackerone.com/reports/3317485

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