CVE-2025-7691 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting GitLab EE versions 16.6 through 18.2.6, 18.3 through 18.3.2, and 18.4 prior to 18.4.1. A developer with specific group management permissions could exploit this to gain unauthorized access and elevated system capabilities. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including a patch release from GitLab.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 16.6, < 18.2.7CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 18.3, < 18.3.3CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 18.4, < 18.4.1CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 16.6.0, < 18.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 16.6.0, < 18.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.