CVE-2026-15723: high-severity vulnerability in GitLab
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an LDAP Query ('LDAP Injection') in GitLab
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41Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has an official Brazilian government alert and has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 8.2epss 0.4%
from disclosure to weapon7 days
Published on NVDOct 21
1st PoC+7d
Official alert in Brazil
Brazil's federal government published an alert, recommendation or bulletin that cites this vulnerability.
- CTIR Gov · RECOMENDAÇÃO 19/2026 · 22 Oct 2026Recomendação Técnica – Múltiplas Vulnerabilidades Críticas no GitLab CE/EEread on gov.br ↗
- CISC Gov.br · 22 Oct 2026Vulnerabilidade crítica de execução remota no Gitlabread on gov.br ↗
Source: CTIR Gov (GSI) and CISC Gov.br, under the CC BY-ND 3.0 license.
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 10.1 before 19.3.6, 19.4 before 19.4.3, and 19.5 before 19.5.1 that, when OmniAuth SAML and LDAP auto-linking were both enabled, an authenticated user could have taken over an existing LDAP-backed account without any interaction from the targeted user, due to improper input sanitization in the LDAP email lookup path used during OmniAuth identity linking.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products
GitLab · GitLabpublic PoCs found — 3
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