CVE-2025-9825: Missing Authorization in GitLab

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: yes
Published: 2025-11-21 · updated 2026-10-19
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.7 to 18.2.8, 18.3 before 18.3.4, and 18.4 before 18.4.2 that could have allowed authenticated users without project membership to view sensitive manual CI/CD variables by querying the GraphQL API.

Affected products

GitLab: from 13.7.0 before 18.2.8; from 18.3.0 before 18.3.4; from 18.4.0 before 18.4.2 — fixed in 18.2.8, 18.3.4, 18.4.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 18.2.8, 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/567301
https://hackerone.com/reports/3319800

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