Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 10.x (starting in 10.6) and 11.x before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It has Incorrect Access Control. The merge request approvers section has an access control issue that permits project maintainers to view membership of private groups.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-6996
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 10.x (starting in 10.6) and 11.x before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It has Incorrect Access Control. The merge request approvers section has an access control issue that permits project maintainers to view membership of private groups.
osv:CVE-2019-6996
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:17.113520369Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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