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Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab

Type: advisorySources: OSV

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 17.0 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before 19.3.5, and 19.4 before 19.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user holding a custom role with compliance framework administration permissions to configure and execute a specially crafted compliance pipeline across group projects due to improper privilege assignment.

Products
gitlab
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
19.2.8, 19.3.5, 19.4.2
CVEs
CVE-2026-104661
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 19:49 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Oct 2026, 09:01 UTC

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 17.0 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before 19.3.5, and 19.4 before 19.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user holding a custom role with compliance framework administration permissions to configure and execute a specially crafted compliance pipeline across group projects due to improper privilege assignment.

osv:BIT-gitlab-2026-104661

gitlab

Fixed versions: 19.2.8, 19.3.5, 19.4.2

Complete source record
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  "id": "bd269041bb0e0205a8d20288a7717a829026f74b4b68763274d094d218e90ffd",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-gitlab-2026-104661",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab",
    "summary": "GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 17.0 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before 19.3.5, and 19.4 before 19.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user holding a custom role with compliance framework administration permissions to configure and execute a specially crafted compliance pipeline across group projects due to improper privilege assignment.",
    "evidence": "osv:BIT-gitlab-2026-104661",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "gitlab",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [
          {
            "value": "19.2.8",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          },
          {
            "value": "19.3.5",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          },
          {
            "value": "19.4.2",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": []
      }
    ],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "BIT-gitlab-2026-104661",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-gitlab-2026-104661",
        "CVE-2026-104661"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "SEMVER",
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                  "introduced": "17.0.0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "19.2.8"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "19.3.0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "19.3.5"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "19.4.0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "19.4.2"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "gitlab",
            "purl": "pkg:bitnami/gitlab",
            "ecosystem": "Bitnami"
          },
          "severity": [
            {
              "type": "CVSS_V3",
              "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/gitlab/BIT-gitlab-2026-104661.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-16T09:45:06.822656428Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-4-2-released/",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/621386",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104661"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cpes": [
          "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*"
        ],
        "severity": "Medium"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2026-104661",
        "evidence": "/aliases"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/database_specific/severity"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 338151,
  "published_at": "2026-10-16T09:01:23.311+00:00"
}