CVE-2025-0516

Publication date 12 February 2025

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Improper Authorization in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.7 prior to 17.7.4, 17.8 prior to 17.8.2 allow users with limited permissions to perform unauthorized actions on critical project data.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gitlab	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored

Notes

mdeslaur

GitLab isn't maintainable as a distro package, and was removed from Ubuntu because of this. We will not be fixing security issues in the gitlab package in Xenial.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N