An improper access control vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.4 prior to 17.8.6, 17.9 prior to 17.9.3, and 17.10 prior to 17.10.1 allows a user who was an instance admin before but has since been downgraded to a regular user to continue to maintain elevated privileges to groups and projects.
                
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References
        | Link | Providers | 
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| https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/516271 |     | 
History
                    Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:15:00 +0000
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:17.10.0:*:*:*:community:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:17.10.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | 
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:15:00 +0000
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| Metrics | ssvc 
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Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:45:00 +0000
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| Description | An improper access control vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.4 prior to 17.8.6, 17.9 prior to 17.9.3, and 17.10 prior to 17.10.1 allows a user who was an instance admin before but has since been downgraded to a regular user to continue to maintain elevated privileges to groups and projects. | |
| Title | Incorrect Authorization in GitLab | |
| First Time appeared | Gitlab Gitlab gitlab | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-863 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products | Gitlab Gitlab gitlab | |
| References |  | |
| Metrics | cvssV3_1 
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitLab
Published: 2025-03-27T12:30:57.479Z
Updated: 2025-03-27T13:11:00.331Z
Reserved: 2025-03-12T08:02:47.810Z
Link: CVE-2025-2242
 Vulnrichment
                        Vulnrichment
                    Updated: 2025-03-27T13:10:56.407Z
 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Analyzed
Published: 2025-03-27T13:15:36.387
Modified: 2025-08-13T01:13:26.560
Link: CVE-2025-2242
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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