CVE-2026-2238

Missing Authorization in GitLab

CVSS 5.3 MEDIUMEPSS 0.2%CWE-862

Vexday Risk Score

33Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

CVSS 5.3EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

25 Jun 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.5 before 18.11.6, 19.0 before 19.0.3, and 19.1 before 19.1.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to view confidential issue references on public projects due to improper authorization checks.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

GitLab · GitLab

public PoCs found — 1

cve_referencehackerone.com/reports/3543011unverified

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References

https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-1-1-released/https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/589186 https://hackerone.com/reports/3543011