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CVE-2026-89078

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Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 19.2 before 19.2.7, 19.3 before 19.3.3, and 19.4 before 19.4.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the GitLab server due to a double free issue when parsing a specially crafted regular expression in a CI/CD configuration.

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.9 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2026-09-24 00:17:22.060000
Last modified
2026-10-31 00:16:51.750000
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  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-09-24T00:17:22.060",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-31T00:16:51.750",
  "vulnStatus": "Modified",
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          "repo": "git://[email protected]:gitlab-org/gitlab.git",
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      "url": "https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/10/23/regexp-fixes-for-gitlab-cves/",
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