GitLab vulnerabilities
We track 242 vulnerabilities in GitLab products across 4 products. 242 are rated high or critical, and 6 have been exploited in real attacks. The most recent was published on October 22, 2026.
Latest GitLab vulnerabilities
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
An issue was discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting with 12.3 before 17.7.7, 17.8 prior to 17.8.5, and 17.9 prior to 17.9.2. A vulnerability in certain GitLab instances could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition by manipula
- 7.4 High severity
GitLab: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
An issue was discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 17.2 before 17.7.7, all versions starting from 17.8 before 17.8.5, all versions starting from 17.9 before 17.9.2. An input validation issue in the Google Cloud IAM integration feature co
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
An issue was discovered in GitLab EE/CE affecting all versions starting from 11.5 before 17.7.7, all versions starting from 17.8 before 17.8.5, all versions starting from 17.9 before 17.9.2. Certain user inputs in repository mirroring settings could potentiall
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.4 prior to 17.5.0 which allows an attacker to trigger a pipeline as another user under certain circumstances.
- 8.8 High severity
GitLab: Server-Side Request Forgery
An external service interaction vulnerability in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 15.11 prior to 17.6.5, 17.7 prior to 17.7.4, and 17.8 prior to 17.8.2 allows an attacker to send requests from the GitLab server to unintended services.
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere
An information disclosure vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 8.3 prior to 17.6.5, 17.7 prior to 17.7.4, and 17.8 prior to 17.8.2 allows an attacker to send a crafted request to a backend server to reveal sensitive information.
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
An insecure direct object reference vulnerability in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 15.7 prior to 17.6.5, 17.7 prior to 17.7.4, and 17.8 prior to 17.8.2 allows an attacker to view repositories in an unauthorized way.
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.7 prior to 16.9.7, starting from 16.10 prior to 16.10.5, and starting from 16.11 prior to 16.11.2. It was possible for an attacker to cause a denial of service by crafting unu
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.6 prior to 17.2.9, starting from 17.3 prior to 17.3.5, and starting from 17.4 prior to 17.4.2, where viewing diffs of MR with conflicts can be slow.
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitLab CE/EE, affecting all versions from 15.11 prior to 16.6.7, 16.7 prior to 16.7.5 and 16.8 prior to 16.8.2 which allows an attacker to spike the GitLab instance resource usage resulting in service degrada
- 8.8 High severity
GitLab: Cross-Site Request Forgery
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 10.6 prior to 16.9.7, starting from 16.10 prior to 16.10.5, and starting from 16.11 prior to 16.11.2 in which cross-site request forgery may have been possible on GitLab instance
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 9.4 before 17.4.6, 17.5 before 17.5.4, and 17.6 before 17.6.2. An attacker could cause a denial of service with requests for diff files on a commit or merge request.
- 8.7 High severity
GitLab: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.1 prior to 17.4.6, starting from 17.5 prior to 17.5.4, and starting from 17.6 prior to 17.6.2, injection of NEL headers in k8s proxy response could lead to session data exfiltratio
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
A Denial of Service (DoS) issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions prior to 12.6 prior to 17.4.5, 17.5 prior to 17.5.3, and 17.6 prior to 17.6.1. An attacker could cause a denial of service with a crafted cargo.toml file.
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.6 prior to 17.4.5, starting from 17.5 prior to 17.5.3, starting from 17.6 prior to 17.6.1 which could cause Denial of Service via integrating a malicious harbor registry.
- 8.8 High severity
GitLab: Missing Authorization
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 8.12 before 17.4.5, 17.5 before 17.5.3, and 17.6 before 17.6.1. This issue allows an attacker with access to a victim's Personal Access Token (PAT) to escalate privileges.
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
A denial of service (DoS) condition was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.2.4 before 17.4.5, 17.5 before 17.5.3, and 17.6 before 17.6.1. By leveraging this vulnerability an attacker could create a DoS condition by sending crafted API ca
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Incorrect Authorization
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.9.8 before 17.4.5, 17.5 before 17.5.3, and 17.6 before 17.6.1. Certain API endpoints could potentially allow unauthorized access to sensitive data due to overly broad application of token s
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Incorrect Ownership Assignment
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.3 before 17.4.2, all versions starting from 17.5 before 17.5.4, all versions starting from 17.6 before 17.6.2. This issue allows an attacker to create a group with a name matc
- 8.8 High severity
GitLab: Incorrect Authorization
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.0 prior to 17.3.7, starting from 17.4 prior to 17.4.4, and starting from 17.5 prior to 17.5.2, which could have allowed unauthorized access to the Kubernetes agent in a cluster und
- 8.8 High severity
GitLab: Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality
An issue was discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 12.5 prior to 17.2.9, starting from 17.3, prior to 17.3.5, and starting from 17.4 prior to 17.4.2, which allows running pipelines on arbitrary branches.
- 8.8 High severity
GitLab: Incorrect Authorization
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 11.6 prior to 17.2.9, starting from 17.3 prior to 17.3.5, and starting from 17.4 prior to 17.4.2, which allows an attacker to trigger a pipeline as another user under certain circumst
- 8.1 High severity
GitLab: Server-Side Request Forgery
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 15.10 prior to 17.2.9, from 17.3 prior to 17.3.5, and from 17.4 prior to 17.4.2. Instances with Product Analytics Dashboard configured and enabled could be vulnerable to SSRF attack
- 9.1 Critical severity
GitLab: Exposure of Sensitive Information Due to Incompatible Policies
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE/CE affecting all versions starting from 8.0 before 16.4. The product did not sufficiently warn about security implications of granting merge rights to protected branches.
- 8.8 High severity
GitLab: Privilege Context Switching Error
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.7 prior to 17.1.7, from 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, and from 17.3 prior to 17.3.2. It may have been possible for an attacker with a victim's CI_JOB_TOKEN to obtain a GitLab session
- 8.8 High severity
GitLab: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.14 prior to 17.1.7, starting from 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, and starting from 17.3 prior to 17.3.2, which allows an attacker to trigger a pipeline as an arbitrary user under certain cir
- 8.1 High severity
GitLab: External Control of Critical State Data
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE/CE affecting all versions from 16.9.7 prior to 17.1.7, 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, and 17.3 prior to 17.3.2. An improper input validation error allows attacker to squat on accounts via linking arbitrary unclaimed provider id
- 8.8 High severity
GitLab: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.11 prior to 17.1.7, from 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, and from 17.3 prior to 17.3.2. Due to incomplete input filtering, it was possible to inject commands into a connected Cube server.
- 7.2 High severity
GitLab: Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
A privilege escalation issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.6 prior to 17.1.7, from 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, and from 17.3 prior to 17.3.2. A user assigned the Admin Group Member custom role could have escalated their pri
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.4 prior to 17.1.7, starting from 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, starting from 17.3 prior to 17.3.2 which could cause Denial of Service via sending a specific POST request.
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Missing Authorization
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 11.2 before 17.1.7, all versions starting from 17.2 before 17.2.5, all versions starting from 17.3 before 17.3.2. It was possible for a guest to read the source code of a private pr
- 9.1 Critical severity
GitLab: Incorrect Authorization
An issue was discovered in GitLab-EE starting with version 13.3 before 17.1.7, 17.2 before 17.2.5, and 17.3 before 17.3.2 that would allow an attacker to modify an on-demand DAST scan without permissions and leak variables.
- 9.8 Critical severity
ruby-saml: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
The Ruby SAML library is for implementing the client side of a SAML authorization. Ruby-SAML in <= 12.2 and 1.13.0 <= 1.16.0 does not properly verify the signature of the SAML Response. An unauthenticated attacker with access to any signed saml document (by th
- 8.1 High severity
GitLab: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
A permission check vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.12 prior to 17.0.6, 17.1 prior to 17.1.4, and 17.2 prior to 17.2.2 allowed for LFS tokens to read and write to the user owned repositories.
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
ReDoS flaw in RefMatcher when matching branch names using wildcards in GitLab EE/CE affecting all versions from 11.3 prior to 17.0.6, 17.1 prior to 17.1.4, and 17.2 prior to 17.2.2 allows denial of service via Regex backtracking.
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.16 prior to 17.0.6, starting from 17.1 prior to 17.1.4, and starting from 17.2 prior to 17.2.2, which causes the web interface to fail to render the diff correctly when the path is
- 9.8 Critical severity
GitLab: Improper Access Control
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.8 prior to 16.11.6, starting from 17.0 prior to 17.0.4, and starting from 17.1 prior to 17.1.2, which allows an attacker to trigger a pipeline as another user under certain circums
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Incorrect Authorization
Improper authorization in global search in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.11 prior to 16.11.5 and 17.0 prior to 17.0.3 and 17.1 prior to 17.1.1 allows an attacker leak content of a private repository in a public project.
- 8.8 High severity
GitLab: Improper Access Control
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.8 prior to 16.11.5, starting from 17.0 prior to 17.0.3, and starting from 17.1 prior to 17.1.1, which allows an attacker to trigger a pipeline as another user under certain circums
- 8.2 High severity
GitLab: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
A XSS condition exists within GitLab in versions 15.11 before 16.10.6, 16.11 before 16.11.3, and 17.0 before 17.0.1. By leveraging this condition, an attacker can craft a malicious page to exfiltrate sensitive user information.