GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Vulnerability

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• cpe gitlab/gitlabversion unspecified
• vendor GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Editionversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2026-85706

• Recommended remediation

  Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines. CISA due date Sep 14, 2026.

• Official advisories

  • CISA KEV · cisa.gov
  • CVE.org · cve.org
  • FIRST EPSS · first.org
  • GitLab Security Releases · docs.gitlab.com
  • Nuclei Templates · github.com
  • NIST NVD · nvd.nist.gov

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

• Repository · gitlab.com

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

1. Sep 11, 2026 · Catalog

   Detected

   GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 before 18.11.12, 19.0 before 19.0.9, 19.1 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that, under certain conditions, an unauthenticated user could have read arbitrary files from the GitLab server due to improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement in the repository commits API.

2. Sep 11, 2026 · CISA KEV

   Known exploited

   Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating

3. Sep 14, 2026 · CISA KEV

   Remediation due

   Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating

4. Sep 24, 2026 · Catalog

   Updated

   GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 before 18.11.12, 19.0 before 19.0.9, 19.1 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that, under certain conditions, an unauthenticated user could have read arbitrary files from the GitLab server due to improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement in the repository commits API.

Sources

• CISA KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2026-85706

  GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files due to an improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement in the repository commits API.

  cisa.gov
• CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-85706

  Official CVE identifier

  cve.org
• FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2026-85706

  30-day exploitation probability 93.0%

  first.org
• GitLab Security ReleasesVendor advisoryCVE-2026-85706

  On September 23, 2026, we released versions 19.0.9 and 18.11.12 for GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). These versions backport the fixes for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-85706 and CVE-2026-87719, that were originally patched in 19.3.2, 19.2.6, an

  docs.gitlab.com
• Metasploit ModulesPublic exploit moduleauxiliary_gather/gitlab_file_read_cve_2026_85706

  Public module reference (normal). Module source is not copied into this catalog.

  rapid7.com
• Nuclei TemplatesDetection templateCVE-2026-85706

  CVE-2026-85706 has a public Nuclei detection template.

  github.com
• NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-85706

  GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 before 18.11.12, 19.0 before 19.0.9, 19.1 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that, under certain conditions, an unauthenticated user could have read arbitrary files from the Git

  nvd.nist.gov
• Rapid7 Vulnerability DatabaseResearchCVE-2026-85706

  Overview On September 10, 2026, GitLab published a critical patch release for GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). The release addresses CVE-2026-85706 , a critical path traversal vulnerability ( CWE-22 ) in the repository commits API with a CVSSv3.1 score of 10.0 . According to GitLab, improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement could allow an unauthenti

  rapid7.com
• VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2026-85706

  GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files due to an improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement in the repository commits API.

  vulncheck.com

References

• VulnCheck exploitation evidence · api.vulncheck.com
• VulnCheck exploitation evidence · api.vulncheck.com
• VulnCheck exploitation evidence · api.vulncheck.com
• CISA note · docs.gitlab.com
• VulnCheck exploitation evidence · fortiguard.fortinet.com
• Broken Link · gitlab.com
• Permissions Required · hackerone.com
• CISA note · nvd.nist.gov
• Third Party Advisory · cisa.gov
• CISA note · cisa.gov
• CISA note · cisa.gov
• VulnCheck exploitation evidence · cisa.gov
• VulnCheck exploitation evidence · x.com

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.