CVE-2025-9957

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

22/04/2026

Last modified:

22/04/2026

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.2 before 18.9.6, 18.10 before 18.10.4, and 18.11 before 18.11.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with project owner permissions to bypass group fork prevention settings due to improper authorization checks.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.70 LOW
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

2.70

Severity 3.x

LOW

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/04/22/patch-release-gitlab-18-11-1-released/
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/567781
https://hackerone.com/reports/3275222