Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab (CVE-2025-9486)
GitLab Enterprise Edition versions from 15.6 up to but not including 19.0.6, 19.1 up to 19.1.4, and 19.2 up to 19.2.2 contain an incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability. This flaw could allow a user with a pending membership status to receive permissions granted by a custom role, due to the system not properly accounting for membership state. The issue has been remediated in versions 19.0.6, 19.1.4, and 19.2.2 and later.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2025-9486 is a vulnerability in GitLab Enterprise Edition where under certain conditions, users with pending membership status could improperly receive permissions associated with custom roles. This occurs because the privilege assignment mechanism did not correctly consider the membership state, leading to incorrect privilege grants. The vulnerability affects GitLab EE versions >=15.6.0 <19.0.6, >=19.1.0 <19.1.4, and >=19.2.0 <19.2.2. The issue has been fixed in versions 19.0.6, 19.1.4, and 19.2.2.
Potential Impact
Users with pending membership could gain permissions they should not have, potentially allowing unauthorized access or actions within GitLab projects or groups. The severity is rated low, indicating limited impact or exploitability. There are no known exploits in the wild.
Mitigation Recommendations
A patch is available and has been released in GitLab EE versions 19.0.6, 19.1.4, and 19.2.2. Users should upgrade affected GitLab instances to these or later versions to remediate the vulnerability.
Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab (CVE-2025-9486)
Description
GitLab Enterprise Edition versions from 15.6 up to but not including 19.0.6, 19.1 up to 19.1.4, and 19.2 up to 19.2.2 contain an incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability. This flaw could allow a user with a pending membership status to receive permissions granted by a custom role, due to the system not properly accounting for membership state. The issue has been remediated in versions 19.0.6, 19.1.4, and 19.2.2 and later.
Affected software
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AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2025-9486 is a vulnerability in GitLab Enterprise Edition where under certain conditions, users with pending membership status could improperly receive permissions associated with custom roles. This occurs because the privilege assignment mechanism did not correctly consider the membership state, leading to incorrect privilege grants. The vulnerability affects GitLab EE versions >=15.6.0 <19.0.6, >=19.1.0 <19.1.4, and >=19.2.0 <19.2.2. The issue has been fixed in versions 19.0.6, 19.1.4, and 19.2.2.
Potential Impact
Users with pending membership could gain permissions they should not have, potentially allowing unauthorized access or actions within GitLab projects or groups. The severity is rated low, indicating limited impact or exploitability. There are no known exploits in the wild.
Mitigation Recommendations
A patch is available and has been released in GitLab EE versions 19.0.6, 19.1.4, and 19.2.2. Users should upgrade affected GitLab instances to these or later versions to remediate the vulnerability.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- BIT-gitlab-2025-9486
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.6.2
- Aliases
- ["CVE-2025-9486"]
- Ecosystems
- ["Bitnami"]
- Database Specific Severity
- Low
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a8460a2c6e8be033245a887
Added to database: 08/18/2026, 13:39:46 UTC
Last enriched: 08/18/2026, 13:42:50 UTC
Last updated: 08/18/2026, 13:42:50 UTC
Views: 3
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