Medium
Security advisory
An authorization issue in GitLab CE/EE version 9.4 and up allowed a group maintainer to modify group CI/CD variables which should be restricted to group owners
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-22186
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An authorization issue in GitLab CE/EE version 9.4 and up allowed a group maintainer to modify group CI/CD variables which should be restricted to group owners
osv:CVE-2021-22186
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:58.397214223Z",
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"references": [
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"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/321653"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-03-24T17:15:14.087+00:00"
}