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Medium [CVE-2026-4398] Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in GitLab

This medium-severity GitLab advisory covers CVE-2026-4398 affecting GitLab.

CVE-2026-4398 Published Aug 27, 2026Updated by vendor Aug 27, 2026
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Summary

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.3 before 19.1.7, 19.2 before 19.2.5, and 19.3 before 19.3.1 that, under certain conditions, an authenticated user could have assigned compliance frameworks from namespaces they were not authorized to access to their own project, due to missing namespace validation on self-managed instances.

Affected versions
  • GitLab 18.3 before 19.1.7
  • GitLab 19.2 before 19.2.5
  • GitLab 19.3 before 19.3.1

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Fixed versions
  • 19.1.7
  • 19.2.5
  • 19.3.1

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Mitigation

Upgrade to a fixed release: 19.1.7, 19.2.5, 19.3.1. That is the remediation for this advisory.

The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 1 hour ago·verify at source

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