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Improper Control of Resource Identifiers ('Resource Injection') in GitLab

Type: advisorySources: OSV

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.2.7 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 project-level permissions to access restricted file contents on the server or cause denial of service due to improper validation of parameters in the Terraform state upload functionality.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2026-3855
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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3 Nov 2026, 11:20 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Improper Control of Resource Identifiers ('Resource Injection') in GitLab

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Sept 2026, 06:34 UTC

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.2.7 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 project-level permissions to access restricted file contents on the server or cause denial of service due to improper validation of parameters in the Terraform state upload functionality.

osv:CVE-2026-3855
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-3855",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "Improper Control of Resource Identifiers ('Resource Injection') in GitLab",
    "summary": "GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.2.7 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 project-level permissions to access restricted file contents on the server or cause denial of service due to improper validation of parameters in the Terraform state upload functionality.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-3855",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 494908,
  "published_at": "2026-09-16T06:34:30.822+00:00"
}