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CVE-2026-97229

GitLab Community Edition And Enterprise Edition•CRITICAL · CVSS 10• In the wild In CISA KEV

What is CVE-2026-97229?

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 19.2 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before 19.3.5, and 19.4 before 19.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the GitLab server via a specially crafted regular expression in a CI/CD configuration, due to insufficient regular expression validation.

CVSS10 NVD 3.1

SeverityCRITICAL

Exploitation In the wild In CISA KEV

EPSS18% · P97

Triage statusActive Exploit

ActionPatch immediately

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWECWE-190

NVD published2026-10-13

NVD last modified2026-10-30

Timeline

2026-10-13Published to the U.S. National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
2026-10-29Added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog
2026-10-30First covered in a defend.network daily briefing
2026-10-30NVD record last updated
2026-11-01CISA federal remediation deadline (BOD 22-01)

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Integer Overflow or Wraparound Vulnerability

Added to KEV2026-10-29

Federal patch deadline2026-11-01

Known ransomware useUnknown

Affected product

GitLab Community Edition And Enterprise Edition

Remediation Steps

Apply the vendor security update for GitLab Community Edition And Enterprise Edition as a priority.
Restrict network exposure of the affected service to trusted sources until patched.
Review logs and detections for indicators of exploitation.
Confirm fixed versions against the official vendor advisory before deploying.

References

Referenced in our briefings & reports

Vulnerability Priority Report – Week 4 of October 2026 (October 26 – November 1)
Linux kernel, PHP, Cisco, GitLab critical flaws under active exploitation (2026-10-30)

Related vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-85706 – GitLab Community Edition And Enterprise Edition (same product)
CVE-2026-19478 – Gitlab (same product)
CVE-2026-64531 (same weakness: CWE-190)
CVE-2026-46331 – Linux Kernel (same weakness: CWE-190)
CVE-2025-48595 – Android Framework (same weakness: CWE-190)

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