The Canada Brief

Tech · 12 d ago

Program code on a screen

GitLab patches a maximum-severity flaw that reaches back 12 years

The flaw lets an attacker run code on a self-managed server without logging in, and it affects every version since 7.0, released in 2014.

Severity score

10.0 CVSS

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-110264, is rated 10.0, the maximum on the CVSS scale.

What we know

  • GitLab.com already runs the fixed version
  • No attacks have been reported

Not yet

  • The conditions an attacker needs

GitLab reports no attacks and offers no workaround, but has not said what conditions an attacker needs.

What to do

Administrators of self-managed servers should upgrade to a fixed version such as 19.5.1, 19.4.3 or 19.3.6.