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title: "CVE-2025-6945\n    | Ubuntu"
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url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-6945?format=md
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# CVE-2025-6945

Publication date 15 November 2025

Last updated 19 November 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

## Cvss 3 Severity Score

**3.5 · Low**

[Score breakdown](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-6945?format=md#impact-score)

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## Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from
17.8 before 18.3.6, 18.4 before 18.4.4, and 18.5 before 18.5.2 that could
have allowed an authenticated attacker to leak sensitive information from
confidential issues by injecting hidden prompts into merge request
comments.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-6945?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| gitlab | 25.10 questing | Not in release |
| 25.04 plucky | Not in release |
| 24.04 LTS noble | Not in release |
| 22.04 LTS jammy | Not in release |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Ignored |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [mdeslaur](https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur)

GitLab isn't maintainable as a distro package, and was removed
from Ubuntu because of this. We will not be fixing security
issues in the gitlab package in Xenial.

## Severity score breakdown

CVSS version:
CVSS v3.0

**Base score**

3.5 · Low

* Base metrics

  | Parameter | Value |
  | --- | --- |
  | Attack vector | Network |
  | Attack complexity | Low |
  | Privileges required | Low |
  | User interaction | Required |
  | Scope | Unchanged |
  | Confidentiality impact | Low |
  | Integrity impact | None |
  | Availability impact | None |
* Scores

  | Parameter | Value |
  | --- | --- |
  | Base score | 3.5 · Low |
  | Exploitability score | - |
  | Impact score | - |

**Vector:** CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-6945)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6945)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2025-6945)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-6945)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6945>
* <https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/11/12/patch-release-gitlab-18-5-2-released/>
* <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/552611>
* <https://hackerone.com/reports/3173458>