What is CVE-2025-12669?

CVE-2025-12669 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2026-05-14.

How severe is CVE-2025-12669?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

RCE in Gitlab

CVE-2025-12669

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.11 before 18.9.7, 18.10 before 18.10.6, and 18.11 before 18.11.3 that could have allowed an authenticated user to inject HTML and JavaScript into email notificat…

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.000 (9.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Gitlab — versions 15.11, 18.10, 18.11

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

cve@gitlab.com (Permissions Required, technical-description, permissions-required, exploit)
cve@gitlab.com (Not Applicable)
cve@gitlab.com (Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-12669?: CVE-2025-12669 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2026-05-14.
How severe is CVE-2025-12669?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.