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.

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Solution

Upgrade to versions 18.9.7, 18.10.6, 18.11.3 or above.


Workaround

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History

Thu, 14 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

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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.
Title Missing Authorization in GitLab
First Time appeared Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses CWE-862
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 2.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-14T05:36:17.336Z

Reserved: 2026-02-20T19:33:13.460Z

Link: CVE-2026-2900

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-14T06:16:21.803

Modified: 2026-05-14T06:16:21.803

Link: CVE-2026-2900

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-14T07:30:06Z

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