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CVE-2026-15723

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Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 10.1 before 19.3.6, 19.4 before 19.4.3, and 19.5 before 19.5.1 that, when OmniAuth SAML and LDAP auto-linking were both enabled, an authenticated user could have taken over an existing LDAP-backed account without any interaction from the targeted user, due to improper input sanitization in the LDAP email lookup path used during OmniAuth identity linking.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.2 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-22 01:16:59.477000
Last modified
2026-10-27 14:09:28.953000
View original CVE JSON
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  "lastModified": "2026-10-27T14:09:28.953",
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