CVE-2026-18252 is an inclusion-of-functionality-from-untrusted-control-sphere vulnerability in GitLab Enterprise Edition's Duo Claude AI agent. In affected releases, the agent processes configuration from a user-controlled source, allowing an authenticated user holding the Developer role, under certain conditions, to execute arbitrary commands in a CI context. Affected versions are GitLab EE 18.9 through releases before 19.1.7, 19.2 through releases before 19.2.5, and 19.3 through releases before 19.3.1.
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A GitLab vulnerability included in the referenced FreeBSD security advisory. It is the plugin's CVSS scoring source and is rated High by CVSS v3 (7.3); the content does not map it to a specific listed GitLab issue.
A high-severity arbitrary-command-execution vulnerability in GitLab Enterprise Edition's Duo Claude AI agent. Processing configuration from a user-controlled source could allow an authenticated user with Developer-role permissions to influence and execute commands in a CI environment, potentially exposing pipeline secrets, artifacts, credentials, and connected development infrastructure.
A high-severity arbitrary-command-execution vulnerability in GitLab Enterprise Edition's Duo Claude AI agent. Untrusted, user-controlled configuration could influence CI command execution, potentially exposing CI job secrets, source code, build artifacts, deployment credentials, cloud tokens, and package-registry credentials.
An authenticated command-execution vulnerability in GitLab EE CI contexts. A user with Developer-role permissions could, under certain conditions, execute arbitrary commands by controlling configuration processed by the Claude agent.
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Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
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