[ CVE-2026-97229 · Published 13 Oct 2026 ]
Critical Vulnerability in GitLab CE and EE
[ Why it matters ]Priority signals
- Critical severity: CVSS 10.0
- Urgent advisory from CERT-EU
[ Description ]Official description
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.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.
[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories
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NCSC-NLNCSC-2026-0414
Vulnerabilities fixed in GitLab Translated from Dutch
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CERT-EUCERT-EU 2026-016
Critical Vulnerability in GitLab CE and EE
On 12 October 2026, GitLab released versions 19.4.2, 19.3.4 and 19.2.8 of GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), fixing 24 security issues among which a critical vulnerability that could allow an…
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CERT-FRCERTFR-2026-AVI-1294
Multiple vulnerabilities in GitLab Translated from French
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GitLab. Some of them allow an attacker to cause remote arbitrary code execution, a breach of data confidentiality and a breach of data integrity.
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BSI CERT-BundWID-SEC-2026-3858
GitLab: Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German
[ References ]References
- docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-4-2-releasedRelease NotesVendor Advisory
- gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/630686Issue Tracking
- hackerone.com/reports/4055749Permissions Required
- hackerone.com/reports/4058589Permissions Required