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Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in GitLab

Type: advisorySources: OSV

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 17.0 before 19.0.5, 19.1 before 19.1.3, and 19.2 before 19.2.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to merge code into a protected branch without the required approvals due to a race condition in approval rule processing.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2026-13113
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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3 Nov 2026, 03:24 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in GitLab

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 Jul 2026, 19:00 UTC

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 17.0 before 19.0.5, 19.1 before 19.1.3, and 19.2 before 19.2.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to merge code into a protected branch without the required approvals due to a race condition in approval rule processing.

osv:CVE-2026-13113
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-13113",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in GitLab",
    "summary": "GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 17.0 before 19.0.5, 19.1 before 19.1.3, and 19.2 before 19.2.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to merge code into a protected branch without the required approvals due to a race condition in approval rule processing.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-13113",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "aliases": [
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}