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CVE-2026-85706: GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Vulnerability

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2026-09-11
• EPSS: 97.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-09-12 · updated 2026-09-24
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 before 18.11.12, 19.0 before 19.0.9, 19.1 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that, under certain conditions, an unauthenticated user could have read arbitrary files from the GitLab server due to improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement in the repository commits API.

Affected products

• GitLab: from 18.7.0 before 18.11.12; from 19.0.0 before 19.0.9; from 19.1.0 before 19.1.8; from 19.2.0 before 19.2.6; from 19.3.0 before 19.3.2 — fixed in 18.11.12, 19.0.9, 19.1.8, 19.2.6, 19.3.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 18.11.12, 19.0.9, 19.1.8, 19.2.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/627748
• https://hackerone.com/reports/3909881
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-85706

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