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CRITICAL Actively exploited CWE-190

CVE-2026-97229

Integer Overflow or Wraparound in GitLab

GitLab·Community Edition and Enterprise Edition

10.0/ 10
CVSS 3.1
Critical severity
69%
EPSS exploit odds
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Higher than 99.4% of all CVEs
Listed
CISA KEV catalog
Added
Oct 29, 2026
Fix due
Nov 1, 2026
Ransomware
Not known
Timeline
Published
Oct 13, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
First covered
Oct 30, 2026
Latest story
2 weeks ago

Summary

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.

CWE-190Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Attack profile

Attack vectorNetwork
ComplexityLow
PrivilegesNone
User interactionNone
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA required action

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.

Affected products

  • GitLab19.2 to before 19.2.819.3 to before 19.3.519.4 to before 19.4.2

References

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