CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-85706

10.0 CRITICAL Known exploited Published 2026-09-12 Modified 2026-09-24 Official page ↗

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Vulnerability — GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition

GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files due to an improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement in the repository commits API.

Added to KEV
2026-09-11
Remediation due
2026-09-14
Ransomware use
Unknown
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.
Notes
https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-3-2-released/ ; BOD 26-04: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk ; Forensics Triage Requirements: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-implementation-guidance-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85706
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-09-12
Last modified
2026-09-24
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
10.0 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
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 configurations

• gitlab gitlab (>= 18.7.0 < 18.11.12) • gitlab gitlab (>= 19.0.0 < 19.0.9) • gitlab gitlab (>= 19.1.0 < 19.1.8) • gitlab gitlab (>= 19.2.0 < 19.2.6) • gitlab gitlab (>= 19.3.0 < 19.3.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References