🛡️ CVE-2026-6896 on Ubuntu — gitlab

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 13.11 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 authenticated user with developer-role permissions to execute arbitrary scripts in another user's browser session due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-6896 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package gitlab. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

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. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-6896 is recorded against 1 package.

  • gitlab

Timeline and source

Published on 8 July 2026 and last revised on 15 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-08
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gitlab — —

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