Backstage has improper authorization in GitLab organizational user ingestion

### Impact Deployments that enable GitLab organization event ingestion and rely on scoped catalog users as an access boundary may admit an unintended catalog identity. Depending on sign-in and permission configuration, this may allow unauthorized access with the permissions of a standard authenticated user. ### Patches - Upgrade `@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend-module-gitlab` to version `0.8.7`. ### Workarounds - Disable event-driven GitLab organization ingestion and rely on scheduled discovery until upgrading. - Enforce organization membership independently at the authenticating proxy or sign-in resolver.

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24 Oct 2026 13:17:17 UTC

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