A Leaked GitLab Issue Email Address Lets Anyone Push Code and Run CI Jobs as You
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A Leaked GitLab Issue Email Address Lets Anyone Push Code and Run CI Jobs as You

The Hacker News · Sep 23, 2026

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A Leaked GitLab Issue Email Address Lets Anyone Push Code and Run CI Jobs as You
Security September 23, 2026

The private email address GitLab gives you for filing issues by email is a credential. Anyone who gets it can email a patch that GitLab commits in your name, to any branch you can push to, including main, and can start CI/CD jobs that run as you. GitLab shows each user this address behind a button labeled "Email work item to this project." Mail sent to it opens an issue in that project, authored

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