GitLab — Security Activity Report

GitLab platform (GitLab Security Advisories)

Generated Oct 4, 2026Cohort: 9 vendors with ≥10 CVE advisoriesMethodology ↗

CVE Disclosure Volume

Total all-time: 620 CVEs with GitLab advisories. Source: NVD CVE records joined with vendor advisory publish dates.

Severity Composition

↓ -25.2 pp

28.1% of GitLab's 620 CVEs are CRITICAL or HIGH severity. Industry median: 53.2%. Source: NVD CVSS v3.1.

CRITICAL 25 (4.0%)HIGH 149 (24.0%)MEDIUM 367 (59.2%)LOW 79 (12.7%)

CISA KEV Listings

↓ -0.2 pp

3 of 549 GitLab CVEs in the last 3 years are on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (0.6%). Industry median: 0.7%.

Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (current snapshot). KEV listing means CISA observed active in-the-wild exploitation.

Vendor Patch Velocity

↑ +13.3 days

Median time from CVE disclosure to GitLab advisory: 41 days (p25 14 days – p75 110 days). Industry median: 28 days.

Sample size: 17 CVE→advisory pairs over the last 3 years. Source: vendor advisory published_at minus CVE published.

Top Recurring Weakness Classes

Most-frequently mapped CWEs across GitLab's last 3 years of CVE disclosures. Source: NVD — CWE mapping per MITRE taxonomy.

CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling77 CVEs
CWE-863Incorrect Authorization70 CVEs
CWE-79Cross-site Scripting (XSS)62 CVEs
CWE-862Missing Authorization55 CVEs
CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (Denial of Service)31 CVEs

Recent Security Advisories

Latest advisories published by GitLab, straight from the vendor's own feed. Severity labels are the vendor's — scales differ across vendors.

patch-release-gitlab-ai-gateway-19-4-1-released
Oct 2, 2026
GitLab AI Gateway Critical Patch Release: 19.2.4, 19.3.2, and 19.4.1
CVE-2026-90970 vendor source ↗
patch-release-gitlab-19-0-9-released
Sep 23, 2026
GitLab Critical Patch Release: 19.0.9, 18.11.12
CVE-2026-85706 CVE-2026-87719 vendor source ↗
patch-release-gitlab-19-4-1-released
Sep 23, 2026
GitLab Critical Patch Release: 19.4.1, 19.3.3, 19.2.7
CVE-2026-93577 CVE-2026-84739 CVE-2026-92470 CVE-2026-92874 CVE-2026-92530 CVE-2026-92529+5 more CVEsvendor source ↗
patch-release-gitlab-19-3-2-released
Sep 10, 2026
GitLab Critical Patch Release: 19.3.2, 19.2.6, 19.1.8
CVE-2026-87719 CVE-2026-88765 CVE-2026-79708 CVE-2026-7514 CVE-2026-8030 CVE-2024-11222+12 more CVEsvendor source ↗
patch-release-gitlab-19-3-1-released
Aug 26, 2026
GitLab Patch Release: 19.3.1, 19.2.5, 19.1.7
CVE-2026-15387 CVE-2026-7487 CVE-2026-18252 CVE-2026-77801 CVE-2025-10903 CVE-2026-3035+1 more CVEsvendor source ↗
patch-release-gitlab-19-2-4-released
Aug 17, 2026
GitLab Critical Patch Release: 19.2.4, 19.1.6, 19.0.8, 18.11.11
CVE-2026-19478 CVE-2026-19650 vendor source ↗
patch-release-gitlab-19-2-2-released
Aug 12, 2026
GitLab Patch Release: 19.2.2, 19.1.4, 19.0.6
CVE-2026-16627 CVE-2026-7427 CVE-2026-4879 CVE-2026-18433 CVE-2025-9486 CVE-2026-15217+8 more CVEsvendor source ↗
patch-release-gitlab-18-11-9-released
Aug 6, 2026
GitLab Patch Release: 18.11.9
vendor source ↗

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Data sources & corrections

NVD National Vulnerability Database (nvd.nist.gov) — CVE records + CVSS v3.1 severity
MITRE cvelistV5 (github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5) — CNA-published CVE timestamps
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog)
Vendor security advisories (Red Hat RHSA, Ubuntu USN, Microsoft MSRC, Cisco PSIRT and other per-vendor feeds; the GitHub and OSV advisory databases are not used) — published_at timestamps
MITRE CWE taxonomy (cwe.mitre.org) — weakness class mappings

Snapshot generated Oct 4, 2026: when these counts and industry medians were computed. Vendors in the index are recomputed every 6 hours.

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