CVE-2026-97229
CVE-2026-97229: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in GitLab
Published Oct 13, 2026
Overview On October 12, 2026, GitLab published a critical patch release for CVE-2026-97229 , an integer overflow or wraparound ( CWE-190 ) in the CI/CD regular expression compiler affecting GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). GitLab assigned the vulnerability a CVSSv3.1 score of 10.0 . Under certain conditions, a remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on an affected GitLab server through a specially crafted regular expression stored in a malicious CI/CD configuration. While the vendor supplied CVSS score indicates that exploitation is fully unauthenticated, in reprod
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Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Oct 13, 2026 · Rapid7 Vulnerability Database
Detected
Overview On October 12, 2026, GitLab published a critical patch release for CVE-2026-97229 , an integer overflow or wraparound ( CWE-190 ) in the CI/CD regular expression compiler affecting GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). GitLab assigned the vulnerability a CVSSv3.1 score of 10.0 . Under certain conditions, a remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on an affected GitL
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- CVE.orgCVE-2026-97229
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - Rapid7 Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2026-97229
Overview On October 12, 2026, GitLab published a critical patch release for CVE-2026-97229 , an integer overflow or wraparound ( CWE-190 ) in the CI/CD regular expression compiler affecting GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). GitLab assigned the vulnerability a CVSSv3.1 score of 10.0 . Under certain conditions, a remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on an affected GitL
rapid7.com - Tenable CVE DatabaseCVE-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.
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