CVE-2025-9486 Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab
A user with pending membership could incorrectly receive permissions from a custom role due to flawed privilege assignment logic in GitLab EE.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-9486?
CVE-2025-9486 is a low-severity vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab, published on 12 Aug 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 15.6 before 19.0.6, 19.1 before 19.1.4, and 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed a user with a pending membership to receive permissions granted by a custom role, due to incorrect privilege assignment that did not account for membership state.
Weakness: CWE-266
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-9486?
1 open source package ship an affected version, including gitlab. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
gitlab Bitnami | From 15.6.0 | 19.0.6, 19.1.4, 19.2.2 |
Products include Gitlab Gitlab.
How do I fix CVE-2025-9486?
Upgrade gitlab to a fixed version for your release line: 19.0.6, 19.1.4 or 19.2.2.
Is CVE-2025-9486 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-9486 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Gitlab Gitlab
- CVE-2026-97229 GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Integer Overflow or Wraparound
- CVE-2026-85706 GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal
- CVE-2023-7028 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Improper Access Control
- CVE-2021-22205 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2021-39935 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Sources
Also known as BIT-gitlab-2025-9486, GHSA-j94w-j9cr-q9pj, MINI-7328-vfhw-w2c3, MINI-gv4v-fjjv-hcg9.