Vulnerability · Published Oct 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitLab
CVE-2026-14210Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in GitLab
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw 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 12% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.11 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before 19.3.5, and 19.4 before 19.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user with a project-scoped fine-grained Personal Access Token to permanently delete or modify group-level labels, due to incorrect authorization logic on label ownership scope validation.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-1220 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/604538
- HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3741505 technical-description, exploit, permissions-required
- https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-4-2-released/