CVE-2025-5101

MEDIUM

5.0

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 18.1.5, 18.2 before 18.2.5, and 18.3 before 18.3.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated attacker to distribute malicious code that appears harmless in the web interface by taking advantage of ambiguity between branches and tags during repository imports.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.0

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityHIGH

Privileges RequiredHIGH

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published8/27/2025

Last Modified9/2/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gitlab:gitlab

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-94

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/545165(cve@gitlab.com)

https://hackerone.com/reports/3124199(cve@gitlab.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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