# CVE-2025-11340: Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

> CVE-2025-11340: Incorrect Authorization in GitLab. CVSS 7.7 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-11340
Last updated: 2026-10-19T16:10:00Z

- Published: 2025-10-09 12:04 UTC · Updated: 2026-10-19 16:10 UTC · Assigner: GitLab
- CVSS: 7.7 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS: 0.37%, 31th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-863

## Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.3 to 18.3.4, 18.4 to 18.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed authenticated users with read-only API tokens to perform unauthorized write operations on vulnerability records by exploiting incorrectly scoped GraphQL mutations.

## Affected vendors and products

- GitLab: GitLab

## Tracked companies

- [GitLab](https://rewindex.com/company/gitlab.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11340)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11340)
- [https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/10/08/patch-release-gitlab-18-4-2-released/](https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/10/08/patch-release-gitlab-18-4-2-released/)
- [https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/567847](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/567847)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-11340 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-11340.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-11340 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T04:04:07.189Z