GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.7 before 18.10.7, 18.11 before 18.11.4, and 19.0 before 19.0.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to access CI data from a different ref type than intended.

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 9b94eb13-6159-11f1-be36-2cf05da270f3 advisory.

    Gitlab reports:
    Improper Access Control issue in Duo AI workflow runners impacts GitLab EE     Denial of Service issue in Wiki impacts GitLab CE/EE     Incorrect Authorization issue in GraphQL WorkItem API impacts GitLab CE/EE     Improper Authorization issue in Duo Workflows API impacts GitLab EE     Missing Authorization issue in Operations impacts GitLab EE     Incorrect Name Resolution issue in Pipelines impacts GitLab CE/EE     Incorrect Authorization issue in certain authentication endpoints impacts GitLab CE/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.

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 12.7 before 18.10.7, 18.11     before 18.11.4, and 19.0 before 19.0.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated     user to access CI data from a different ref type than intended. (CVE-2026-8716)

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:

  - Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference in GitLab (CVE-2026-8716)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
319612	FreeBSD : Gitlab -- vulnerabilities (9b94eb13-6159-11f1-be36-2cf05da270f3)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
317942	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-8716	Nessus	Misc.	medium
317287	GitLab 12.7 < 18.10.7 / 18.11 < 18.11.4 / 19.0 < 19.0.1 (CVE-2026-8716)	Nessus	CGI abuses	medium

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CVE-2026-8716

medium

Tenable Plugins

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medium

medium