CVE-2026-16627: GitLab

Critical severity, CVSS 9.0. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with developer-role permissions to escalate privileges due to improper sanitization of HTML content rendered in a CI job modal.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 19.2.0, before 19.2.2 (fixed in 19.2.2)

Published 2026-08-12. Last modified 2026-08-19.