CVE-2026-97229: critical vulnerability in GitLab
Integer Overflow or Wraparound in GitLab
Published · Updated
48Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 10epss 0.6%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDOct 13
1st PoCOct 13
exploitation probability
0.6%top 55% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
4 public exploit(s)
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/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
GitLab · GitLabpublic PoCs found — 4
githubgithub.com/jburgess-r7/CVE-2026-97229-PoC★ 8githubgithub.com/AmpedWasTaken/CVE-2026-97229-GitLab-CI-CD-Regex-Compiler-RCE★ 0cve_referencehackerone.com/reports/4055749unverifiedcve_referencehackerone.com/reports/4058589unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
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