[CIVN-2025-0180] Multiple vulnerabilities in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE)

By Published On: August 19, 2025

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Multiple vulnerabilities in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) 
Indian – Computer Emergency Response Team (https://www.cert-in.org.in)
Severity Rating: MEDIUM
Software Affected
GitLab CE/EE versions from 15.0 before 18.0.5, 18.1 before 18.1.3 and 18.2 before 18.2.1
Overview
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in GitLab which could allow an attacker to bypass security restrictions, obtain sensitive information and perform cross site scripting attacks on the targeted system.
Target Audience:
All organizations and individuals using GitLab.
Risk Assessment:
High Risk of unauthorized access to data and system instability.
Impact Assessment:
Potential for data theft, sensitive information disclosure and complete compromise of system.
Description
GitLab CE is a free, open-source DevOps platform with basic features. GitLab EE is a paid version with advanced tools for security, compliance, and enterprise use.
These vulnerabilities exist in Gitlab due to lack of proper authorization, inadequate access control and improper sanitization of user supplied input.
Successful Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to bypass security restrictions, obtain sensitive information and perform cross site scripting attack on the targeted system.
Solution
Apply appropriate update as mentioned in GitLab security release:
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/07/23/patch-release-gitlab-18-2-1-released/
Vendor Information
Gitlab
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/
References
Gitlab
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/07/23/patch-release-gitlab-18-2-1-released/
CVE Name
CVE-2025-4700
CVE-2025-4439
CVE-2025-7001
CVE-2025-4976
CVE-2025-0765
CVE-2025-1299
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CERT-In
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PGP Fingerprint: A768 083E 4475 5725 B81A A379 2156 C0C0 B620 D0B4
PGP Key information:
https://www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServlet?pageid=CONTACTUS
Postal address:
Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In)
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Government of India
Electronics Niketan
6, C.G.O. Complex
New Delhi-110 003
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