Name: CVE-2025-9486: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2025-9486, CWE-266, CVSS 3.3, EPSS 0.00341

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 15.6 before 19.0.6, 19.1 before 19.1.4, and 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed a user with a pending membership to receive permissions granted by a custom role, due to incorrect privilege assignment that did not account for membership state.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 3.3
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Freebsd	—	Upgrade gitlab-ceUpgrade gitlab-ee	Aug 14, 2026	Aug 13, 2026
Gitlab Gitlab	—	Upgrade Gitlab to the latest version	Aug 13, 2026	Aug 12, 2026

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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