GitLab releases critical security patches amid vulnerability streak

Person applying a band aid illustrating DevOps platform GitLab issuing new critical security patches following a streak of vulnerabilities that could impact organisations and software developers.

GitLab has released a new round of critical security patches for its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) products. The company strongly recommends that all self-managed GitLab installations be upgraded immediately to one of the latest versions: 17.4.2, 17.3.5, or 17.2.9.

These patch releases address several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw that could allow attackers to run pipelines on arbitrary branches. This latest security...