GitLab Patches Critical Code Injection Vulnerability
GitLab on Monday rolled out patches for two vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity code injection flaw that can be exploited without authentication.
Tracked as CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score of 9.4), the security defect allows attackers to modify or delete user data and public projects via a GraphQL directive, GitLab explains in its advisory.
The second bug is CVE-2026-19650 (CVSS score of 7.1), a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issue impacting the GraphQL multiplex query handler.
“GitLab has remediated an issue that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to execute mutations via GET requests due to improper request validation in GraphQL multiplex query handling,” the advisory reads.
The two vulnerabilities impact all GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) versions from 18.2, 19.0, 19.1, and 19.2 onwards. They were addressed in GitLab CE/EE versions 18.11.11, 19.0.8, 19.1.6, and 19.2.4.
“We strongly recommend that all self-managed GitLab installations be upgraded...
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