CVE-2026-104661 Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab

What is CVE-2026-104661?

CVE-2026-104661 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab, published on 13 Oct 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 17.0 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before 19.3.5, and 19.4 before 19.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user holding a custom role with compliance framework administration permissions to configure and execute a specially crafted compliance pipeline across group projects due to improper privilege assignment.

Weakness: CWE-266

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-104661?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including gitlab. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gitlab Gitlab.

How do I fix CVE-2026-104661?

Upgrade gitlab to a fixed version for your release line: 19.2.8, 19.3.5 or 19.4.2.

Is CVE-2026-104661 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-104661 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Gitlab Gitlab

• CVE-2026-97229 GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Integer Overflow or Wraparound Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2026-85706 GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2023-7028 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Improper Access Control Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2021-22205 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2021-39935 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Exploited Medium 6.8

All Gitlab Gitlab vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-gitlab-2026-104661, GHSA-7g5q-9jqp-cj84, MINI-6vhx-vrmq-8j3w, MINI-fp93-73rg-hjwm, MINI-h53q-wgf5-xwrg, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-104661.