CVE-2026-79708
highGitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 19.0 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that, under certain cond…
Vendor / product: Gitlab — gitlab
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 19.0 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that, under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with developer permissions to execute a policy test pipeline on projects within their group and access protected CI/CD variables restricted to higher-privileged roles, due to insufficient scope validation.
CVSS
8.5
8.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (cve@gitlab.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-16 07:16
Modified: 2026-09-28 13:31
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:54 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
gitlab / gitlab ≥19.0.0 <19.1.8, ≥19.2.0 <19.2.6, ≥19.3.0 <19.3.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
References
- https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-3-2-released/ cve@gitlab.com
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/622477 cve@gitlab.com
- https://hackerone.com/reports/3873243 cve@gitlab.com
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:54 UTC · record ↗