🛡️ CVE-2026-7492 — gitlab

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-862 OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Missing Authorization in GitLab

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 9.1 before 18.11.7, 19.0 before 19.0.4, and 19.1 before 19.1.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to determine the existence of a private project due to improper authorization controls on cross-project reference pages.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-7492 is classified as CWE-862: Missing Authorization. No authorisation check is performed before carrying out a restricted action.

Affected software

CVE-2026-7492 is recorded against 1 package.

  • gitlab

Timeline and source

Published on 13 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

docs.gitlab.com (Web)
gitlab.com (Web)
hackerone.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-862
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-13
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gitlab — —

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