Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception in GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2026-112326
Published: October 22, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU157248
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-112326
CWE-ID: CWE-460
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to permanently delete existing vulnerability records despite having only read-only permissions.
The vulnerability exists due to improper cleanup on a thrown exception in security findings processing when error handling fails to distinguish pre-existing vulnerability records from newly created records. A remote user can trigger the affected error-handling path with read-only permissions to cause cleanup logic to permanently delete existing vulnerability records.
Affected software
GitLab Enterprise Edition
How to mitigate CVE-2026-112326
Install security update from vendor's website.
GitLab Enterprise Edition - addressed in versions 19.3.6, 19.4.3, 19.5.1