CVE-2026-82632

Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.9 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before 19.3.5, and 19.4 before 19.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user with a fine-grained Personal Access Token scoped only to user-boundary import permissions to import projects into group namespaces beyond the token's intended scope, due to incorrect authorization of the import target namespace.

Affected

GitLab

CVSS v3.1 GITLAB

3.1 LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 11th percentile

Published

2026-10-13

Updated

2026-10-16

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/3843143

Security advisories

• https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-4-2-released
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/626041

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry