GitLab — Security Activity Report

GitLab platform (GitLab Security Advisories)

Generated Jul 22, 2026Cohort: 9 vendors with ≥10 CVE advisoriesMethodology ↗

CVE Disclosure Volume

Total all-time: 485 CVEs with GitLab advisories. Source: NVD CVE records joined with vendor advisory publish dates.

0202298202314020241702025772026

Severity Composition

-24.6 pp

27.6% of GitLab's 485 CVEs are CRITICAL or HIGH severity. Industry median: 52.2%. Source: NVD CVSS v3.1.

CRITICAL 17 (3.5%)HIGH 117 (24.1%)MEDIUM 282 (58.1%)LOW 69 (14.2%)

CISA KEV Listings

-0.5 pp

2 of 456 GitLab CVEs in the last 3 years are on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (0.4%). Industry median: 1.0%.

Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (current snapshot). KEV listing means CISA observed active in-the-wild exploitation.

Vendor Patch Velocity

+26.8 days

Median time from CVE disclosure to GitLab advisory: 41 days (p25 16 days – p75 110 days). Industry median: 15 days.

Sample size: 18 CVE→advisory pairs over the last 3 years. Source: vendor advisory published_at minus CVE published.

Top Recurring Weakness Classes

Most-frequently mapped CWEs across GitLab's last 3 years of CVE disclosures. Source: NVD — CWE mapping per MITRE taxonomy.

  • CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling63 CVEs
  • CWE-863Incorrect Authorization55 CVEs
  • CWE-79Cross-site Scripting (XSS)47 CVEs
  • CWE-284Improper Access Control39 CVEs
  • CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (Denial of Service)37 CVEs

Recent Security Advisories

Latest advisories published by GitLab, straight from the vendor's own feed. Severity labels are the vendor's — scales differ across vendors.

Full advisory archive: /pulse/vendor-advisories →

Data sources & corrections

  • NVD National Vulnerability Database (nvd.nist.gov) — CVE records + CVSS v3.1 severity
  • MITRE cvelistV5 (github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5) — CNA-published CVE timestamps
  • CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog)
  • Vendor security advisories (RHSA, USN, MSRC, GHSA, etc.) — published_at timestamps
  • MITRE CWE taxonomy (cwe.mitre.org) — weakness class mappings

Snapshot generated Jul 22, 2026. Industry medians refresh every 6 hours; raw vendor counts are queried live on each request.

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