Is CVE-2026-16301 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-16301?

CVE-2026-16301 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (8.5).

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CVE-2026-16301

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 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 with Developer role to execute CI/CD pipelines on protected branches without authorization due to improper authorization checks in the downstream pipeline creation service.