CVE-2026-8716 Details
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.
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2026-8716
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System): EPSS predicts the likelihood that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild. A higher percentage means a greater chance of an exploit occurring. The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%).
0.19 Probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days (9th percentile)
CVSS score for CVE-2026-8716
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System): An open framework owned and managed by FIRST.Org, Inc. that assigns a numerical score from 0 to 10 to software vulnerabilities to indicate their severity.
4.3 Medium
Products affected by CVE-2026-8716
GitLab 12.8.0
GitLab 12.8.1
GitLab 12.9.0
GitLab 12.9.1
GitLab 13.0.0
DVE Score by Bitsight AI
DVE scores complement traditional static scoring systems like CVSS with Bitsight AI powered real-time threat intelligence and underground cyber criminal activity so that security teams can reduce alert fatigue and focus on vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited.
Low
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CVE-2026-8716 Global Footprint

Top 10 Identified Countries

Country Observations Percentage
US 4,341 18.49%
DE 4,127 17.58%
RU 3,027 12.89%
CN 2,016 8.59%
FR 1,092 4.65%
SG 827 3.52%
RO 544 2.32%
FI 535 2.28%
NL 514 2.19%
GB 500 2.13%

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CVE-2026-8716 Industry Footprint

Top 10 Identified Industries

*Service provider organizations (typically Technology and Telecommunications) are disproportionally represented in the results given their upstream ownership of end-user infrastructure. See our FAQs.

Industry* Observations Percentage
Technology 15,654 85.26%
Telecommunications 2,116 11.52%
Education 278 1.51%
Government/Politics 81 0.44%
Business Services 49 0.27%
Manufacturing 34 0.19%
Retail 31 0.17%
Healthcare/Wellness 16 0.09%
Media/Entertainment 16 0.09%
Energy/Resources 15 0.08%

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