CVE-2026-6976 (GCVE-0-2026-6976)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-11 10:20 – Updated: 2026-06-11 12:33
VLAI
Title
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in GitLab
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.9 before 18.10.8, 18.11 before 18.11.5, and 19.0 before 19.0.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with developer-role permissions to hide changes from merge request diff views due to improper input handling of file names.
Severity
3.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 15.9 , < 18.10.8 (semver)
Affected: 18.11 , < 18.11.5 (semver)
Affected: 19.0 , < 19.0.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [xorz](https://hackerone.com/xorz) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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