CVE-2019-6996: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 10.x (starting in 10.6) and 11.x before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It has Incorrect Access Control. The merge request approvers section has an access control issue that permits project maintainers to view membership of private groups.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 10.6.0, up to and including 10.8.7; from 11.0.0, before 11.5.8 (fixed in 11.5.8); from 11.6.0, before 11.6.6 (fixed in 11.6.6); from 11.7.0, before 11.7.1 (fixed in 11.7.1)

Published 2019-09-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.