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CVE-2026-6821: Missing Authorization in GitLab

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-12 · updated 2026-08-19
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 12.0 before 19.0.6, 19.1 before 19.1.4, and 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to bypass IP-based access restrictions and read limited merge request information from a private project due to missing authorization checks in a merge requests API endpoint.

Affected products

• GitLab: from 12.0.0 before 19.0.6; from 19.1.0 before 19.1.4; from 19.2.0 before 19.2.2 — fixed in 19.0.6, 19.1.4, 19.2.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 19.0.6, 19.1.4, 19.2.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-2-2-released/
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/597702
• https://hackerone.com/reports/3674254

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