Vulnerability record

CVE-2026-97229

Severity: CriticalExploitation: No known exploitation

Patch status

No official fix confirmed yet

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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.

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database. Official vulnerability data, reproduced as published.

Affected products

Products affected by this vulnerability, with versions and the source of each entry
ProductVendorAffected versionsFixed inSource
GitLabGitLab>= 19.2.0, < 19.2.8; >= 19.3.0, < 19.3.5; >= 19.4.0, < 19.4.219.2.8; 19.3.5; 19.4.2NVD

Sources: NVD = NIST National Vulnerability Database.

Intelligence timeline

Developments from the last 30 days, newest first.

  1. CVSS scoredUpdate

    CVE-2026-97229 scored CVSS 10.0

    Basis: NIST National Vulnerability Database

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References