Medium
Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
Type: advisorySources: OSV
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.11 before 18.11.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to access titles of confidential or private issues in public projects due to improper access control in the issue description rendering process.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-5377
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 16:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.11 before 18.11.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to access titles of confidential or private issues in public projects due to improper access control in the issue description rendering process.
osv:CVE-2026-5377
Complete source record
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"id": "4cf1b17dc087bd074366c50ba5867170179c7f9c41a125ac9e77fbac0b9a4f9e",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-5377",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "Incorrect Authorization in GitLab",
"summary": "GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.11 before 18.11.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to access titles of confidential or private issues in public projects due to improper access control in the issue description rendering process.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-5377",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2026-5377",
"aliases": [
"BIT-gitlab-2026-5377",
"CVE-2026-5377"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "1060c7b0ff78be7c8abe8fd6d23dcb1ca493fd78"
},
{
"last_affected": "1060c7b0ff78be7c8abe8fd6d23dcb1ca493fd78"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:18.11.0:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "18.11.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "18.11.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
},
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:18.11.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "18.11.0"
},
{
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}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"18.11.0",
"v18.11.0-ee"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-5377.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:48.005603271Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/04/22/patch-release-gitlab-18-11-1-released/",
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/595553",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/5xxx/CVE-2026-5377.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5377",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/3640688"
],
"provider_metadata": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-863"
],
"cna_assigner": "GitLab",
"unresolved_ranges": [
{
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "18.11"
},
{
"fixed": "18.11.1"
}
],
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
"strategy": "StandardRange"
}
]
},
{
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "18.11"
},
{
"fixed": "18.11.1"
}
],
"source": "DESCRIPTION"
}
]
}
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/5xxx/CVE-2026-5377.json"
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2026-5377",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 487397,
"published_at": "2026-04-22T16:04:31.304+00:00"
}