GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Integer Overflow or Wraparound Vulnerability
GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition contain a integer overflow or wraparound vulnerability that could allow 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.
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
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- GitLab
- Product
- Community Edition and Enterprise Edition
- CVSS
- 10.0
- EPSS
- 0.27 (p98)
- CISA KEV
- added 29 Oct 2026, due 1 Nov 2026 (0d)
- Exploitation
- observed in the wild
- Fix
- available
- Weakness
- CWE-190
- Exposure class
- Developer platform
Why it ranks 86 (Critical)
- CISA KEV listed, remediation due 2026-11-01
- CVSS 10.0 critical
- EPSS 0.18 (elevated)
- Product class: developer platform
- Covered by 5 independent sources
- Fix available
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0) (nvd.nist.gov)
- Vendor advisory (docs.gitlab.com)
- CVE-2026-97229 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia · KEV
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