CVE-2026-8667 in GitLab

Summary

by MITRE • 08/12/2026

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.6 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 to modify certain package registry metadata without the required maintainer-level permissions due to improper authorization checks.

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• Responsible: GitLab
• Reservation: 05/15/2026
• Disclosure: 08/12/2026
• Moderation: accepted
• Entry: VDB-389151
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-269 (confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.3 (VulDB)
• EPSS: 0.00000
• KEV: no
• Activities: very low
• Sector: Pharma, Hostingprovider, ...

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8667
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8667
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-8667/