Insufficient Scope Validation in GL EE 19.0-19.3: Devs access vars & pipelines
CVE-2026-79708 Published on September 16, 2026
Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-79708 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is an AuthZ Vulnerability?
The software performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.
CVE-2026-79708 has been classified to as an AuthZ vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-79708
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Affected Versions
GitLab:- Version 19.0 and below 19.1.8 is affected.
- Version 19.2 and below 19.2.6 is affected.
- Version 19.3 and below 19.3.2 is affected.