CVE-2026-79708

8.5 highEPSS 0.4%

High (8.5) in gitlab gitlab. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.5 high

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

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-863
Published: 2026-09-16
Modified: 2026-09-28
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gitlab:gitlab

References

https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-3-2-released/
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/622477
https://hackerone.com/reports/3873243

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