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.

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Solution

Upgrade to versions 19.1.8, 19.2.6, 19.3.2 or above.


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History

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
First Time appeared Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses CWE-863
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-16T06:33:26.046Z

Reserved: 2026-08-25T13:07:03.737Z

Link: CVE-2026-79708

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-16T07:16:37.440

Modified: 2026-09-16T07:16:37.440

Link: CVE-2026-79708

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