GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.0 before 19.0.6, 19.1 before 19.1.4, and 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with developer-role permissions to view external status check configuration restricted to higher-privileged roles due to missing authorization on a merge request API endpoint.

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Solution

Upgrade to versions 19.0.6, 19.1.4, 19.2.2 or above.


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History

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:30:00 +0000

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Description GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.0 before 19.0.6, 19.1 before 19.1.4, and 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with developer-role permissions to view external status check configuration restricted to higher-privileged roles due to missing authorization on a merge request API endpoint.
Title Missing Authorization in GitLab
First Time appeared Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses CWE-862
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-12T19:05:11.422Z

Reserved: 2026-03-26T06:33:33.568Z

Link: CVE-2026-4879

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-12T20:17:44.850

Modified: 2026-08-12T20:17:44.850

Link: CVE-2026-4879

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-12T21:00:03Z

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