Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-1732

Gitlab 12.6.0 – 18.7.6

Published
11 March 2026
Modified
13 March 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 4.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0025 17th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-1732 is a medium-severity Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer (CWE-212) vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Code Repositories (T1213.003); ranked at the 17th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.6 before 18.7.6, 18.8 before 18.8.6, and 18.9 before 18.9.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to disclose confidential issue titles due to improper filtering under certain…

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CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1213.003 Code Repositories Collection
Adversaries may leverage code repositories to collect valuable information.
Why these techniques?

Improper filtering enables unauthorized access to sensitive data (issue titles) stored in GitLab, directly facilitating T1213.003 Code Repositories.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

gitlab
gitlab
12.6.0 — 18.7.6 · 12.6.0 — 18.7.6 · 18.8.0 — 18.8.6

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • SI-15 Information Output Filtering
  • AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 5 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V14.2.8
  • V14.3.3

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Enforces authorization checks so that only permitted users can retrieve confidential issue titles, directly blocking the improper disclosure path.

prevent

Requires output filtering of sensitive fields (issue titles) before they are returned to users, addressing the exact CWE-212 filtering failure.

prevent

Enforces information-flow rules between issue objects and user sessions to prevent unauthorized leakage of confidential metadata.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.DS-10 mostly match
prevents

Directly addresses removal of confidential data from process memory and similar in-use contexts before exposure.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

degrades

Explicit information-deletion control directly addresses improper removal of sensitive data.

prevents

Data-masking techniques can substitute for removal when full deletion is impractical.

prevents

Test-data protection rules require sanitization of production data used in testing.

prevents

Classification identifies sensitive data that must be removed before storage or transfer.

prevents

Information-transfer rules can require sanitization of sensitive content before sharing.

prevents

PII-protection requirements include removing identifiers before storage or disclosure.

References