CVE•Published 2026-08-26•Modified 2026-08-31•0 articles on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-18252Gitlab · Gitlab
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
7.3
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS percentile
26
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 74% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.9 before 19.1.7, 19.2 before 19.2.5, and 19.3 before 19.3.1 that, under certain conditions, an authenticated user with developer-role permissions could have executed arbitrary commands in a CI context, due to the Claude agent processing configuration from a user-controlled source.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-26
Modified 2026-08-31
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2026-18252Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Gitlab Gitlab"All exposed Gitlab Gitlab instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Gitlab"HTTP body or banner mentions "Gitlab" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-18252Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-18252Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-18252Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-18252GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-18252" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (1)
We haven't classified any articles referencing CVE-2026-18252 yet. The external references above still apply.