CVE-2026-16255
Received Received - Intake

GitLab EE Membership Lock Bypass via SAML/LDAP

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-16255, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-10-22

Last updated on: 2026-10-22

Assigner: GitLab Inc.

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 12.0 before 19.3.6, 19.4 before 19.4.3, and 19.5 before 19.5.1 that, when the instance-wide SAML or LDAP membership lock was enabled, an authenticated user could have granted or accepted project and group membership outside the identity provider's control, due to incomplete enforcement of the membership lock on requests created before the lock was enabled.

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Published
2026-10-22
Last Modified
2026-10-22
Generated
2026-10-22
EPSS Evaluated
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GitLab GitLab 12.0
GitLab GitLab 19.4
GitLab GitLab 19.5

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CWE-863 The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check.

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