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[TLP:CLEAR] GitLab CE/EE fixes 9 vulnerabilities

GitLab fixes 9 vulnerabilities in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) with versions 18.9.1, 18.8.5 and 18.7.5 [1]. The most severe ones are listed below.

GItLab CE/EE - XSS (CVE-2026-0752 )
CVSS 8.0 (High)

Under certain circumstances, an unauthenticated remote attacker can carry out an XSS attack in the Mermaid sandbox functionality [1].

The vulnerability is present in products:

  • GitLab Community Edition; >=16.2.0, <18.7.5; >=18.8.0, <18.8.5; >=18.9.0, <18.9.1
  • GitLab Enterprise Edition; >=16.2.0, <18.7.5; >=18.8.0, <18.8.5; >=18.9.0, <18.9.1

CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

More information:

  • CVE-2026-0752 at cve.org, NVD
  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') at cwe.mitre.org

The vulnerability was publicly disclosed 25. 2. 2026.

GitLab CE/EE - DoS (CVE-2025-14511)
CVSS 7.5 (High)

Under certain circumstances, an unauthenticated remote attacker can carry out a DoS attack in the container image registry functionality by sending specially crafted files [1].

The vulnerability is present in products:

  • GitLab Community Edition; >=12.2.0, <18.7.5; >=18.8.0, <18.8.5; >=18.9.0, <18.9.1
  • GitLab Enterprise Edition; >=12.2.0, <18.7.5; >=18.8.0, <18.8.5; >=18.9.0, <18.9.1

CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

More information:

The vulnerability was publicly disclosed 25. 2. 2026.

GitLab CE/EE - DoS (CVE-2026-1662)
CVSS 7.5 (High)

An unauthenticated remote attacker can carry out a DoS attack by sending specially crafted requests to the Jira events endpoint [1].

The vulnerability is present in products:

  • GitLab Community Edition; >=14.4.0, <18.7.5; >=18.8.0, <18.8.5; >=18.9.0, <18.9.1
  • GitLab Enterprise Edition; >=14.4.0, <18.7.5; >=18.8.0, <18.8.5; >=18.9.0, <18.9.1

CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

More information:

The vulnerability was publicly disclosed 25. 2. 2026.

GitLab CE/EE - DoS (CVE-2026-1388 )
CVSS 7.5 (High)

Due to insufficient limits on regular expression processing in the merge request functionality, an unauthenticated remote attacker can carry out a DoS attack [1].

The vulnerability is present in products:

  • GitLab Community Edition; >=9.2.0, <18.7.5; >=18.8.0, <18.8.5; >=18.9.0, <18.9.1
  • GitLab Enterprise Edition; >=9.2.0, <18.7.5; >=18.8.0, <18.8.5; >=18.9.0, <18.9.1

CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

More information:

The vulnerability was publicly disclosed 25. 2. 2026.


By CESNET, z.s.p.o. Henrieta Paločková on 26. 2. 2026.

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