VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2026-2900

low
Published 2026-05-14 · Modified 2026-05-16
CVSS v3
2.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
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VIR risk
2.7

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.10 before 18.9.7, 18.10 before 18.10.6, and 18.11 before 18.11.3 that when instance-level approval rule editing prevention was enabled, could have allowed an authenticated user with Maintainer permissions to modify or delete project approval rules due to missing authorization checks.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
39%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@gitlab.com — https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/05/13/patch-release-gitlab-18-11-3-released/

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gitlabgitlab{"startIncluding":"16.10.0","endExcluding":"18.9.7"}18.9.7

References

CWEs

CWE-862

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.