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CVE-2025-9486: Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-12 · updated 2026-09-29
• Weakness: CWE-266

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.

Affected products

• GitLab: from 15.6.0 before 19.0.6; from 19.1.0 before 19.1.4; from 19.2.0 before 19.2.2 — fixed in 19.0.6, 19.1.4, 19.2.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 19.0.6, 19.1.4, 19.2.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-2-2-released/
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/565412
• https://hackerone.com/reports/3262844

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