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Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in GitLab

Type: advisorySources: OSV

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.10 before 18.9.7, 18.10 before 18.10.6, and 18.11 before 18.11.3 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to create unauthorized Jira subscriptions for a targeted user's namespace via a specially crafted link due to missing CSRF protection.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2026-4527
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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2 Nov 2026, 16:09 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in GitLab

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 May 2026, 05:34 UTC

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.10 before 18.9.7, 18.10 before 18.10.6, and 18.11 before 18.11.3 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to create unauthorized Jira subscriptions for a targeted user's namespace via a specially crafted link due to missing CSRF protection.

osv:CVE-2026-4527
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-4527",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in GitLab",
    "summary": "GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.10 before 18.9.7, 18.10 before 18.10.6, and 18.11 before 18.11.3 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to create unauthorized Jira subscriptions for a targeted user's namespace via a specially crafted link due to missing CSRF protection.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-4527",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
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        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/594339",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/4xxx/CVE-2026-4527.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4527",
        "https://hackerone.com/reports/3590487"
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 486953,
  "published_at": "2026-05-14T05:34:32.344+00:00"
}