CVE-2026-16553 (GCVE-0-2026-16553)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-29 18:59 – Updated: 2026-07-29 19:31
VLAI
Title
Insufficiently Protected Credentials in GitLab
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.8 before 19.0.5, 19.1 before 19.1.3, and 19.2 before 19.2.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed some sensitive information to be disclosed to an unintended host due to improper handling of upstream requests in virtual registries.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 18.8 , < 19.0.5 (semver)
Affected: 19.1 , < 19.1.3 (semver)
Affected: 19.2 , < 19.2.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
This vulnerability has been discovered internally by GitLab team member Fiona McCawley
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