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Use of Less Trusted Source in GitLab

Type: advisorySources: OSV

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 19.1 before 19.2.7, 19.3 before 19.3.3, and 19.4 before 19.4.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to spoof merge request authorship and attribute content to arbitrary existing users on the target instance due to improper reliance on ephemeral cache state during Direct Transfer imports.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2026-92530
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
8 Nov 2026, 01:37 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Use of Less Trusted Source in GitLab

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Sept 2026, 23:05 UTC

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 19.1 before 19.2.7, 19.3 before 19.3.3, and 19.4 before 19.4.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to spoof merge request authorship and attribute content to arbitrary existing users on the target instance due to improper reliance on ephemeral cache state during Direct Transfer imports.

osv:CVE-2026-92530
Complete source record
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  "id": "2e1bbfbbf98e5dc12344a818508f9ef279893bc9da25cdc409311e5339151725",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-92530",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Use of Less Trusted Source in GitLab",
    "summary": "GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 19.1 before 19.2.7, 19.3 before 19.3.3, and 19.4 before 19.4.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to spoof merge request authorship and attribute content to arbitrary existing users on the target instance due to improper reliance on ephemeral cache state during Direct Transfer imports.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-92530",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
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      "references": [
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/92xxx/CVE-2026-92530.json",
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      }
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 521414,
  "published_at": "2026-09-23T23:05:15.13+00:00"
}