Vulnerability · Published Oct 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitLab
CVE-2026-82632Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
Low 3.1
In plain English
A low-severity incorrect authorization 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 18.9 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 fine-grained Personal Access Token scoped only to user-boundary import permissions to import projects into group namespaces beyond the token's intended scope, due to incorrect authorization of the import target namespace.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-863 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/626041
- HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3843143 technical-description, exploit, permissions-required
- https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-4-2-released/