High [CVE-2026-79708] GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 19.0 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that, under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with developer permissions to execute a policy test pipeline on projects within their group and access protected CI/CD variables restricted to higher-privileged roles, due to insufficient scope validation
This high-severity GitLab advisory covers CVE-2026-79708 affecting GitLab.
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Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 19.0 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that, under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with developer permissions to execute a policy test pipeline on projects within their group and access protected CI/CD variables restricted to higher-privileged roles, due to insufficient scope validation.
- before 19.1.8
- before 19.2.6
- before 19.3.2
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 29 days ago·verify at source
- 19.1.8
- 19.2.6
- 19.3.2
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 29 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 19.1.8, 19.2.6, 19.3.2. 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 29 days ago·verify at source
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