CVE-2026-6821

MEDIUMPre-NVD 4.34.3—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 4.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-12. A secondary CVSS source baseline 4.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
4.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 4.3Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 12.0 before 19.0.6, 19.1 before 19.1.4, and 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to bypass IP-based access restrictions and read limited merge request information from a private project due to missing authorization checks in a merge requests API endpoint.

CVSS v3
4.3
EG Score
4.3MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
19
EG Risk 19/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity43% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at every mission impact level.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
27th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at every mission impact level.

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

August 12, 2026

Last Modified

August 19, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Aug 12, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

GitLab Patch Release: 19.2.2, 19.1.4, 19.0.6 | GitLab Docs

https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-2-2-released/

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-6821(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 15× in last 7d / 68× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 134 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-10-04 22:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-03 19:57 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-03 19:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-10-02 17:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-10-02 08:20 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-02 08:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-09-30 21:54 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-09-30 21:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-09-28 12:29 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-09-28 12:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-09-27 09:53 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-27 09:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-09-25 03:40 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-25 03:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-24 00:57 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-09-24 00:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-09-22 22:33 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-09-22 22:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-09-21 21:09 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-09-21 20:05 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-09-21 20:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-09-20 16:32 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-20 16:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-19 11:23 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-19 11:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-09-18 06:14 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-18 06:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  14. 2026-09-17 03:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
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  17. 2026-09-16 01:12 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-16 01:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-09-14 21:52 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-14 21:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-13 14:59 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-09-13 14:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-12 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-09-12 12:26 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-09-12 12:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  28. 2026-09-11 10:02 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-09-11 10:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-09-10 09:35 UTCEPSS rescore
  31. 2026-09-10 07:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-09-09 05:13 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-09-09 05:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  34. 2026-09-08 22:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  35. 2026-09-07 16:42 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-09-07 16:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  38. 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  39. 2026-09-06 12:52 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-09-06 12:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  41. 2026-09-05 15:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  42. 2026-09-05 10:28 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-09-05 10:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  44. 2026-09-04 07:55 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-09-04 07:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-09-04 05:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  47. 2026-09-03 02:29 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-09-03 02:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  49. 2026-09-02 14:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  50. 2026-09-02 00:06 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-09-02 00:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  52. 2026-09-01 13:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  53. 2026-09-01 04:40 UTCEPSS rescore
  54. 2026-08-31 21:40 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-08-31 21:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  56. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  57. 2026-08-30 17:35 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-08-30 17:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  59. 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  60. 2026-08-29 15:11 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-08-29 15:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  62. 2026-08-28 21:42 UTCEPSS rescore
  63. 2026-08-28 11:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  64. 2026-08-27 09:34 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-08-27 09:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  66. 2026-08-26 14:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  67. 2026-08-26 07:09 UTCEG score recompute
  68. 2026-08-26 07:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  69. 2026-08-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  70. 2026-08-25 04:45 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-08-25 04:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  72. 2026-08-24 02:21 UTCEG score recompute
  73. 2026-08-24 02:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  74. 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescore
  75. 2026-08-22 23:57 UTCEG score recompute

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-6821?
CVE-2026-6821 is a medium vulnerability published on August 12, 2026. GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 12.0 before 19.0.6, 19.1 before 19.1.4, and 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to bypass IP-based access restrictions and read limited merge request information from a…
When was CVE-2026-6821 disclosed?
CVE-2026-6821 was first published on August 12, 2026, with the most recent update on August 19, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-6821 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-6821 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (27th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-6821?
CVE-2026-6821 has a CVSS base score of 4.3 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-6821?
No fix for CVE-2026-6821 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-6821 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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