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Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in GitLab

Type: advisorySource: OSV1 source record

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.3 before 19.1.7, 19.2 before 19.2.5, and 19.3 before 19.3.1 that, under certain conditions, an authenticated user could have assigned compliance frameworks from namespaces they were not authorized to access to their own project, due to missing namespace validation on self-managed instances.

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BIT-gitlab-2026-4398

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: osv:BIT-gitlab-2026-4398

gitlab

Source reference: /affected/0/package/name

Affected versions
Not stated in this record
Fixed versions
19.1.7

Source reference: /affected/0/ranges

19.2.5

Source reference: /affected/0/ranges

19.3.1

Source reference: /affected/0/ranges

Prerequisites
Not stated in this record

Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

[
  {
    "ranges": [
      {
        "type": "SEMVER",
        "events": [
          {
            "introduced": "18.3.0"
          },
          {
            "fixed": "19.1.7"
          },
          {
            "introduced": "19.2.0"
          },
          {
            "fixed": "19.2.5"
          },
          {
            "introduced": "19.3.0"
          },
          {
            "fixed": "19.3.1"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "package": {
      "name": "gitlab",
      "purl": "pkg:bitnami/gitlab",
      "ecosystem": "Bitnami"
    },
    "severity": [
      {
        "type": "CVSS_V3",
        "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N"
      }
    ],
    "database_specific": {
      "source": "https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/gitlab/BIT-gitlab-2026-4398.json"
    }
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-4398

Source reference: /aliases

Publisher severity

medium

Source reference: /database_specific/severity

Event
#25934 · Revision 1
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