CVE-2025-2408 | Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in GitLab

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An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.12 before 17.8.7, 17.9 before 17.9.6, and 17.10 before 17.10.4. Under certain conditions users could bypass IP access restrictions and view sensitive information.

Published: 2025-04-10 Last update: 2025-08-07 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-2408 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2025-2408

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-2408

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-19 0.09% 0.02% -0.07%
2 2026-02-04 0.01% 0.09% +0.08%
3 2025-04-11 — 0.01% —

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-2408

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 3.9 1.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-2408

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-2408

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-2408 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (gitlab), 1 status rows across 1 suites (sid): open 1. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-2408
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-2408 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (gitlab), 7 status rows across 7 suites (focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, upstream, xenial): DNE 5, ignored 1, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-2408

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-2408

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gitlab gitlab >= 13.12.0, < 17.8.7 cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab >= 13.12.0, < 17.8.7 cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab >= 17.9.0, < 17.9.6 cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab >= 17.9.0, < 17.9.6 cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab >= 17.10.0, < 17.10.4 cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab >= 17.10.0, < 17.10.4 cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-2408

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