What is CVE-2025-9825?

CVE-2025-9825 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2025-11-21.

How severe is CVE-2025-9825?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Gitlab

CVE-2025-9825

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.7 to 18.2.8, 18.3 before 18.3.4, and 18.4 before 18.4.2 that could have allowed authenticated users without project membership to view sensitive manual CI/CD variables by querying the GraphQL API.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.004 (28.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Gitlab — versions 13.7, 18.3, 18.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

cve@gitlab.com (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
cve@gitlab.com (issue-tracking, Exploit, permissions-required, Issue Tracking)
cve@gitlab.com (Permissions Required, technical-description, permissions-required, exploit)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-9825?: CVE-2025-9825 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2025-11-21.
How severe is CVE-2025-9825?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.