# CVE-2025-6168: Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

> CVE-2025-6168: Incorrect Authorization in GitLab. CVSS 2.7 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-6168
Last updated: 2026-06-17T10:01:18Z

- Published: 2025-07-10 08:30 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 10:01 UTC · Assigner: GitLab
- CVSS: 2.7 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Low · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- EPSS: 0.36%, 29th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-863

## Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.0 before 18.0.4 and 18.1 before 18.1.2 that could have allowed authenticated maintainers to bypass group-level user invitation restrictions by sending crafted API requests.

## 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-2025-6168)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6168)
- [https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/549725](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/549725)
- [https://hackerone.com/reports/3196745](https://hackerone.com/reports/3196745)

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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-2025-6168 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-6168.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-6168 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:12:12.448Z