GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before 19.3.5, and 19.4 before 19.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user with Developer role to execute CI/CD pipelines on protected branches without authorization due to improper authorization checks in the downstream pipeline creation service.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before
    19.3.5, and 19.4 before 19.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user
    with Developer role to execute CI/CD pipelines on protected branches without authorization due to improper
    authorization checks in the downstream pipeline creation service. (CVE-2026-16301)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before     19.3.5, and 19.4 before 19.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user     with Developer role to execute CI/CD pipelines on protected branches without authorization due to improper     authorization checks in the downstream pipeline creation service. (CVE-2026-16301)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of GitLab installed on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability, as follows:

  - GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before     19.3.5, and 19.4 before 19.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user     with Developer role to execute CI/CD pipelines on protected branches without authorization due to improper     authorization checks in the downstream pipeline creation service. (CVE-2026-16301)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 5518664d-c652-11f1-b273-2cf05da270f3 advisory.

    Gitlab reports:
    Integer Overflow issue in CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler impacts GitLab CE/EE     Cross-site Scripting issue in syntax highlighting impacts GitLab CE/EE     Improper Authorization issue in downstream pipeline creation service impacts GitLab CE/EE     Permissive Regular Expression issue in repository file access impacts GitLab CE/EE     Incorrect Authorization issue in scheduled pipeline execution policy impacts GitLab EE     Improper Neutralization of Input Used for LLM Prompting issue in GitLab Duo Agent Platform impacts GitLab     EE     Sensitive Information Exposure issue in GitLab Pages impacts GitLab CE/EE     Open Redirect issue in Kubernetes proxy impacts GitLab CE/EE     Incorrect Authorization issue in GraphQL notes widget impacts GitLab CE/EE     Incorrect Authorization issue in GraphQL work item hierarchy impacts GitLab CE/EE     Incorrect Authorization issue in GraphQL scope impacts GitLab CE/EE     Page cache poisoning via improper cache key construction in merge requests impacts GitLab CE/EE     Incorrect Authorization issue in work items GraphQL API impacts GitLab CE/EE     Missing Authorization issue in merge request accessibility report comparison endpoint impacts GitLab CE/EE     Incorrect Privilege Assignment issue in custom roles impacts GitLab EE     Insufficient Granularity of Access Control issue in project label management impacts GitLab CE/EE     Governance Control Bypass issue in Duo Agent Platform impacts GitLab EE     Incorrect Authorization issue in package registry impacts GitLab CE/EE     Incorrect Authorization issue in merge request approval eligibility check impacts GitLab EE     Incorrect Authorization issue in fine-grained personal access tokens impacts GitLab CE/EE     Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) issue in repository import impacts GitLab CE/EE     Incorrect Authorization issue in project import impacts GitLab CE/EE     Incorrect Authorization issue in Package Registry impacts GitLab CE/EE     Improper Access Control issue in project CI/CD settings impacts GitLab EE

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the FreeBSD security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
477553	Chainguard: multiple gitlab-docker-machine-19.4 packages: security update to 19.4.2-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Chainguard Local Security Checks	Local	high
477553	Chainguard: multiple gitlab-docker-machine-19.4 packages: security update to 19.4.2-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Chainguard Local Security Checks	Local	high
366849	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-16301	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
366187	GitLab 18.7 < 19.2.8 / 19.3 < 19.3.5 / 19.4 < 19.4.2 (CVE-2026-16301)	Nessus	CGI abuses	Combined	high
365109	FreeBSD : Gitlab -- vulnerabilities (5518664d-c652-11f1-b273-2cf05da270f3)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	Local	medium

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CVE-2026-16301

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