# CVE-2025-5315: Missing Authorization in GitLab

> CVE-2025-5315: Missing Authorization in GitLab. CVSS 4.3 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-5315
Last updated: 2026-06-17T09:47:39Z

- Published: 2025-06-26 05:31 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 09:47 UTC · Assigner: GitLab
- CVSS: 4.3 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS: 0.26%, 18th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-862

## Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.2 before 17.11.5, 18.0 before 18.0.3, and 18.1 before 18.1.1 that could have allowed authenticated users with Guest role permissions to add child items to incident work items by sending crafted API requests that bypassed UI-enforced role restrictions.

## 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-2025-5315)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5315)
- [https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/546282](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/546282)
- [https://hackerone.com/reports/3163037](https://hackerone.com/reports/3163037)

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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-2025-5315 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-5315.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-5315 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:10:10.623Z