CVE-2026-16627

9.0 criticalEPSS 0.5%

Critical (9.0) in gitlab gitlab. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with developer-role permissions to escalate privileges due to improper sanitization of HTML content rendered in a CI job modal.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.0 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2026-08-12
Modified: 2026-08-19
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gitlab:gitlab

References

https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-2-2-released/
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/606678
https://hackerone.com/reports/3880796

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