CVE-2026-8472 (GCVE-0-2026-8472)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-08 20:46 – Updated: 2026-07-08 20:46
VLAI
Title
Missing Authorization in GitLab
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.9 before 18.11.7, 19.0 before 19.0.4, and 19.1 before 19.1.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with minimal access permissions to read work item metadata from private projects due to missing authorization checks.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items… | |
| https://hackerone.com/reports/3615282 | technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required |
| https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-re… |
Impacted products
Credits
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