GitLab Critical Patch Release: 17.9.2, 17.8.5, 17.7.7

Today we are releasing versions 17.9.2, 17.8.5, 17.7.7 for GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE).

These versions contain important bug and security fixes, and we strongly recommend that all self-managed GitLab installations be upgraded to one of these versions immediately. GitLab.com is already running the patched version. GitLab Dedicated customers do not need to take action and will be notified once their instance has been patched.

GitLab releases fixes for vulnerabilities in patch releases. There are two types of patch releases: scheduled releases, and ad-hoc critical patches for high-severity vulnerabilities. Scheduled releases are released twice a month on the second and fourth Wednesdays. For more information, you can visit our releases handbook and security FAQ. You can see all of GitLab release blog posts here.

For security fixes, the issues detailing each vulnerability are made public on our issue tracker 30 days after the release in which they were patched.

We are committed to ensuring all aspects of GitLab that are exposed to customers or that host customer data are held to the highest security standards. As part of maintaining good security hygiene, it is highly recommended that all customers upgrade to the latest patch release for their supported version. You can read more best practices in securing your GitLab instance in our blog post.

Recommended Action

We strongly recommend that all installations running a version affected by the issues described below are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

When no specific deployment type (omnibus, source code, helm chart, etc.) of a product is mentioned, this means all types are affected.

Security fixes

Table of security fixes

Title	Severity
CVE-2025-25291 and CVE-2025-25292 (third party gem ruby-saml)	Critical
CVE-2025-27407 (third party gem graphql)	High
Denial of Service Due to Inefficient Processing of Untrusted Input	Medium
Credentials disclosed when repository mirroring fails	Medium
Denial of Service Vulnerability in GitLab Approval Rules due to Unbounded Field	Medium
Internal Notes in Merge Requests Are Emailed to Non-Members Upon Review Submission	Medium
Maintainer can inject shell code in Google integrations	Low
Guest with custom Admin group member permissions can approve the users invitation despite user caps	Low

CVE-2025-25291 and CVE-2025-25292 (third party gem ruby-saml)

GitLab has remediated two privately disclosed security issues (CVE-2025-25291, CVE-2025-25292) identified in the ruby-saml library which GitLab uses when SAML SSO authentication is enabled at the instance or group level. These issues have been remediated on GitLab.com, and in GitLab CE/EE versions 17.7.7, 17.8.5, and 17.9.2.

On GitLab CE/EE instances using SAML authentication, under certain circumstances, an attacker with access to a valid signed SAML document from the IdP could authenticate as another valid user within the environment's SAML IdP.

Self Managed GitLab: Known Mitigations

Affected customers who cannot immediately update GitLab CE/EE to address these issues may choose to perform the following mitigation steps:

Note: This vulnerability requires the attacker to have compromised a valid user account to perform the authentication bypass.

1. Enable GitLab two-factor authentication for all user accounts on the GitLab self-managed instance (NOTE: Enabling identity provider multi-factor authentication does not mitigate this vulnerability) and
2. Do not allow the SAML two-factor bypass option in GitLab and
3. Require admin approval for automatically created new users (gitlab_rails['omniauth_block_auto_created_users'] = true)

GitLab Thanks:

• ahacker1 for reporting CVE-2025-25291 through our HackerOne bug bounty program
• Peter Stöckli (GitHub) for identifying CVE-2025-25292 and contacting GitLab to coordinate disclosure and remediation across vendors
• Sixto Martin Garcia (maintainer of the ruby-saml RubyGem) for their collaboration on remediation and coordinating disclosure

CVE-2025-27407 (third party gem graphql)

GitLab has remediated a privately disclosed security issue (CVE-2025-27407) identified in the Ruby graphql library, which affects and has been remediated in GitLab.com, and in GitLab CE/EE versions 17.7.7, 17.8.5, and 17.9.2.

Under certain circumstances, if an attacker-controlled authenticated user account attempted to transfer a maliciously-crafted project via the Direct Transfer feature (note: Direct transfer is in beta stage and is disabled by default for all self-managed Gitlab instances), remote code execution is possible. Disabling Direct Transfer removes risk of exploitation from this issue.

Self-managed GitLab: Known Mitigations

Affected customers who cannot immediately update their GitLab CE/EE to address these issues may choose to perform the following mitigation steps:

• Disable migration of groups and projects by direct transfer, if enabled (disabled by default)

GitLab Thanks:

• yvvdwf for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
• Robert Mosolgo (ruby-graphql) for their collaboration on cross-vendor disclosure and remediation

Denial of Service Due to Inefficient Processing of Untrusted Input

An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 17.7.7, 17.8 prior to 17.8.5, and 17.9 prior to 17.9.2. where a denial of service vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a system reboot under certain conditions. This is a medium severity issue (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H, 5.7). It is now mitigated in the latest release and is assigned CVE-2024-13054.

Thanks sim4n6 for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program.

Credentials disclosed when repository mirroring fails

An issue was discovered in GitLab EE/CE affecting all versions starting from 11.5 before 17.7.7, all versions starting from 17.8 before 17.8.5, all versions starting from 17.9 before 17.9.2. Certain user inputs in repository mirroring settings could potentially expose sensitive authentication information. This is a medium severity issue (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, 4.4). It is now mitigated in the latest release and is assigned CVE-2024-12380.

Thanks sigitsetiawansss for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program.

Denial of Service Vulnerability in GitLab Approval Rules due to Unbounded Field

An issue was discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting with 12.3 before 17.7.7, 17.8 prior to 17.8.5, and 17.9 prior to 17.9.2. A vulnerability in certain GitLab instances could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition by manipulating specific API inputs. This is a medium severity issue (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H, 6.5). It is now mitigated in the latest release and is assigned CVE-2025-1257.

Thanks pwnie for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program.

Internal Notes in Merge Requests Are Emailed to Non-Members Upon Review Submission

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE/CE affecting all versions starting from 16.9 before 17.7.7, all versions starting from 17.8 before 17.8.5, all versions starting from 17.9 before 17.9.2 could allow unauthorized users to access confidential information intended for internal use only. This is a medium severity issue (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, 4.3). It is now mitigated in the latest release and is assigned CVE-2025-0652.

Thanks foxribeye for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program.

Maintainer can inject shell code in Google integrations

An issue was discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 17.2 before 17.7.7, all versions starting from 17.8 before 17.8.5, all versions starting from 17.9 before 17.9.2. An input validation issue in the Google Cloud IAM integration feature could have enabled a Maintainer to introduce malicious code. This is a low severity issue (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, 3.7). It is now mitigated in the latest release and is assigned CVE-2024-8402.

Thanks joaxcar for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program.

Guest with custom Admin group member permissions can approve the users invitation despite user caps

An issue was discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.5 prior to 17.7.7, 17.8 prior to 17.8.5, and 17.9 prior to 17.9.2 which allowed a user with a custom permission to approve pending membership requests beyond the maximum number of allowed users. This is a low severity issue (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, 2.7). It is now mitigated in the latest release and is assigned CVE-2024-7296.

Thanks ashish_r_padelkar for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program.

Bump PostgreSQL versions to 14.17 and 16.8

The PostgreSQL project released an update so we are updating to versions 14.17 and 16.8.

Bug fixes

17.9.2

• PG: Upgrade client libraries and programs to 16.8
• Use correct project when fetching managed resources templates
• E2E test fix: web ide spec
• Prevent deletion of project_bot users with non-expiring access tokens
• Backport: Fix missing repo logic
• Backport: Search times out with certain special characters
• Backport: Fix to support custom pipcompile requirement file with the new DS analyzer
• Update gitlab-development-kit digest to 1305f9b

17.8.5

• Fixes typo on profiles controller spec

17.7.7

• Fixes typo on issues controller spec

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We’re combining patch and security releases

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