Medium
Generation of Incorrect Security Tokens in GitLab
Type: advisorySources: OSV
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 19.1 before 19.1.3 and 19.2 before 19.2.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to bypass administrator-configured tool governance policies due to improper authorization enforcement during token generation.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-15831
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 21:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Generation of Incorrect Security Tokens in GitLab
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 29 Jul 2026, 19:00 UTC
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 19.1 before 19.1.3 and 19.2 before 19.2.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to bypass administrator-configured tool governance policies due to improper authorization enforcement during token generation.
osv:CVE-2026-15831
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-15831",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "Generation of Incorrect Security Tokens in GitLab",
"summary": "GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 19.1 before 19.1.3 and 19.2 before 19.2.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to bypass administrator-configured tool governance policies due to improper authorization enforcement during token generation.",
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"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/605484",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/15xxx/CVE-2026-15831.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-15831"
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 520427,
"published_at": "2026-07-29T19:00:01.048+00:00"
}