GitLab — Security Activity Report

GitLab platform (GitLab Security Advisories)

Generated Aug 20, 2026Cohort: 9 vendors with ≥10 CVE advisoriesMethodology ↗

CVE Disclosure Volume

Total all-time: 584 CVEs with GitLab advisories. Source: NVD CVE records joined with vendor advisory publish dates.

Severity Composition

↓ -26.0 pp

27.6% of GitLab's 584 CVEs are CRITICAL or HIGH severity. Industry median: 53.6%. Source: NVD CVSS v3.1.

CRITICAL 20 (3.4%)HIGH 141 (24.1%)MEDIUM 347 (59.4%)LOW 76 (13.0%)

CISA KEV Listings

↓ -0.5 pp

2 of 539 GitLab CVEs in the last 3 years are on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (0.4%). Industry median: 0.9%.

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

Vendor Patch Velocity

↑ +34.3 days

Median time from CVE disclosure to GitLab advisory: 41 days (p25 14 days – p75 110 days). Industry median: 7 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 Throttling75 CVEs
CWE-863Incorrect Authorization72 CVEs
CWE-79Cross-site Scripting (XSS)59 CVEs
CWE-862Missing Authorization51 CVEs
CWE-284Improper Access Control37 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-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-2026-15216 CVE-2026-10053 CVE-2026-19228 CVE-2026-16494 CVE-2026-7427 CVE-2026-4879+8 more CVEsvendor source ↗
patch-release-gitlab-18-11-9-released
Aug 6, 2026
GitLab Patch Release: 18.11.9
vendor source ↗
patch-release-gitlab-18-11-8-released
Aug 5, 2026
GitLab Patch Release: 18.11.8
vendor source ↗
patch-release-gitlab-19-2-1-released
Jul 29, 2026
GitLab Patch Release: 19.2.1, 19.1.3, 19.0.5
CVE-2026-13113 CVE-2026-6336 CVE-2026-3093 CVE-2026-15831 CVE-2026-4672 CVE-2026-12436+7 more CVEsvendor source ↗
patch-release-gitlab-19-1-2-released
Jul 8, 2026
GitLab Patch Release: 19.1.2, 19.0.4, 18.11.7
CVE-2026-11827 CVE-2026-7492 CVE-2026-6352 CVE-2026-6896 CVE-2026-13320 CVE-2026-8472+2 more CVEsvendor source ↗
patch-release-gitlab-18-8-11-released
Jul 1, 2026
GitLab Patch Release: 18.8.11
vendor source ↗
patch-release-gitlab-19-1-1-released
Jun 24, 2026
GitLab Patch Release: 19.1.1, 19.0.3, 18.11.6
CVE-2026-10086 CVE-2026-10712 CVE-2026-12053 CVE-2026-2238 CVE-2026-8330 CVE-2026-1606+7 more CVEsvendor source ↗

Full advisory archive: /pulse/vendor-advisories →

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 (RHSA, USN, MSRC, GHSA, etc.) — published_at timestamps
MITRE CWE taxonomy (cwe.mitre.org) — weakness class mappings

Snapshot generated Aug 20, 2026. Industry medians refresh every 6 hours; raw vendor counts are queried live on each request.

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