Medium severity4.9NVD Advisory· Published May 22, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2025-4979
CVE-2025-4979
Description
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 17.10.7, 17.11 before 17.11.3, and 18.0 before 18.0.1. An attacker may be able to reveal masked or hidden CI variables (that they did not author) in the WebUI, by simply creating their own variable and observing the HTTP response.
Affected products
7- Range: <17.10.7, <17.11.3, <18.0.1
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*+ 4 more
- cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*range: <17.10.7
- cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*range: <17.10.7
- cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:18.0.0:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:18.0.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: 0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/524455nvdBroken Link
News mentions
1- GitLab Patch Release: 18.0.1, 17.11.3, 17.10.7GitLab Security Releases · May 21, 2025