Missing Authorization Affecting gitlab-workhorse-ce-18.1 package, versions <18.1.6-r3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-GITLABWORKHORSECE181-15130860
  • published28 Jan 2026
  • disclosed21 Nov 2025

Introduced: 21 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-9825  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-862  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard gitlab-workhorse-ce-18.1 to version 18.1.6-r3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gitlab-workhorse-ce-18.1 package and not the gitlab-workhorse-ce-18.1 package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.7 to 18.2.8, 18.3 before 18.3.4, and 18.4 before 18.4.2 that could have allowed authenticated users without project membership to view sensitive manual CI/CD variables by querying the GraphQL API.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1