High
Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
Type: advisorySources: OSV
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 19.0 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 developer permissions to execute a policy test pipeline on projects within their group and access protected CI/CD variables restricted to higher-privileged roles, due to insufficient scope validation.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-79708
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 10:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 19.0 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 developer permissions to execute a policy test pipeline on projects within their group and access protected CI/CD variables restricted to higher-privileged roles, due to insufficient scope validation.
osv:CVE-2026-79708
Complete source record
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"title": "Incorrect Authorization in GitLab",
"summary": "GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 19.0 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 developer permissions to execute a policy test pipeline on projects within their group and access protected CI/CD variables restricted to higher-privileged roles, due to insufficient scope validation.",
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"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/622477",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/79xxx/CVE-2026-79708.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79708",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/3873243"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2026-09-16T06:33:26.046+00:00"
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