High severity8.2NVD Advisory· Published Oct 22, 2026
CVE-2026-15723
CVE-2026-15723
Description
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 10.1 before 19.3.6, 19.4 before 19.4.3, and 19.5 before 19.5.1 that, when OmniAuth SAML and LDAP auto-linking were both enabled, an authenticated user could have taken over an existing LDAP-backed account without any interaction from the targeted user, due to improper input sanitization in the LDAP email lookup path used during OmniAuth identity linking.
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Affected products
2- Range: from 10.1 before 19.3.6, 19.4 before 19.4.3, and 19.5 before 19.5.1
- Range: from 10.1 before 19.3.6, 19.4 before 19.4.3, and 19.5 before 19.5.1
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References
2News mentions
3- 12-Year-Old GitLab Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution on Self-Managed ServerCyber Security News · Oct 22, 2026
- Critical GitLab Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Could Allow Unauthenticated RCE Across 12 Years of ReleasesThe Hacker News · Oct 21, 2026
- GitLab Critical Patch Release: 19.5.1, 19.4.3, 19.3.6, 19.2.9, 19.1.9, 19.0.10, 18.11.13GitLab Security Releases · Oct 21, 2026