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