GitLab issued updates for CE and EE to address multiple flaws, including a critical bug allowing CI/CD pipeline runs on unauthorized branches.The critical bug, tracked as CVE-2024-9164, allows running pipelines on arbitrary branches and has been mitigated in the latest release.GitLab also addressed four high-severity issues and two medium severity issues in the security updates.In mid-September, GitLab released security patches for 17 vulnerabilities in GitLab CE and EE, including a critical pipeline execution flaw.