CVE-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.

CVSS 3.1

10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-190

Published

2026-10-13

Modified

2026-10-14

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• gitlab:gitlab

References

• https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-4-2-released/
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/630686
• https://hackerone.com/reports/4055749
• https://hackerone.com/reports/4058589

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