An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 10.6 before 16.2.8, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.5, all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.1. It was possible that upstream members to collaborate with you on your branch get permission to write to the merge request’s source branch.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
4.3 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)