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

A Leaked GitLab Issue Email Address Lets Anyone Push Code and Run CI Jobs as You Swati KhandelwalSep 23, 2026DevOps Security / Supply Chain 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 by you. The string in the middle of the address is a token tied to your account, and GitLab's documentation says it…