🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-79708

HIGH 8.5

Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

CVSS Score
8.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

CWE CWE-863
Vendor gitlab
Product gitlab
Ecosystems
Industries
Technology
Published Sep 16, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
None

Affected Versions

GitLab / GitLab
19.0 < 19.1.8 19.2 < 19.2.6 19.3 < 19.3.2

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
gitlab.com: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/622477 hackerone.com: https://hackerone.com/reports/3873243 docs.gitlab.com: https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-3-2-released/

Credits

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