CVE-2025-1754 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-1754

Missing Authentication for Critical Function in GitLab

Vulnerability 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 unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files to public projects by sending crafted API requests, potentially leading to resource abuse and unauthorized content storage.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Thanks [abdelrahman_maged](https://hackerone.com/abdelrahman_maged) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

GitLab
Vulnerable Versions:
17.2, 18.0, 18.1

Timeline

Official Publish: June 26th, 2025
Last Modified: June 26th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-306

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1078 Valid Accounts
Persistence
T1136 Create Account
Persistence
T1098 Account Manipulation
Privilege Escalation
T1021 Remote Services
Lateral Movement