CVE-2026-97229
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
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.
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
10.0
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-13 02:17:00.840000
Last modified
2026-10-30 10:36:26.950000
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