Vulnerability · Published Oct 21, 2026 · Assigned by GitLab
CVE-2026-13319Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in GitLab
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity authorization bypass via user-controlled key in GitLab from GitLab. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.10 before 19.3.6, 19.4 before 19.4.3, and 19.5 before 19.5.1 that, could have allowed an authenticated to read milestone metadata, including titles, descriptions, and full project paths, from arbitrary private projects across the instance without any project membership, due to missing authorization checks on a user-supplied project filter parameter in the group milestones API.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-639 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
References
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/604064
- HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3792168 technical-description, exploit, permissions-required
- https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/