CVE-2025-7001 Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in GitLab

Medium 4.3 Published 24 Jul 2025 Updated 24 Jul 2025

Privileged users can access restricted resource group information via the API due to insufficient access control granularity.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2025-7001?

CVE-2025-7001 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab, published on 24 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.0 before 18.0.5, 18.1 before 18.1.3, and 18.2 before 18.2.1 that could have allowed priviledged users to access certain resource_group information through the API which should have been unavailable.

Weakness: CWE-1220

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-7001?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including gitlab. It affects 1 product.

Package	Affected	Fixed in
`gitlab` Bitnami	From `15.0.0`	`18.0.5, 18.1.3, 18.2.1`

Products include Gitlab Gitlab.

How do I fix CVE-2025-7001?

Upgrade gitlab to a fixed version for your release line: 18.0.5, 18.1.3 or 18.2.1.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2025-7001 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-7001 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as BIT-gitlab-2025-7001, GHSA-w44h-qxhv-wqww, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-7001.