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Active Exploitation of Critical Vulnerability in GitLab

17 September 2026

Attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in GitLab to read arbitrary files from the server. Patch immediately.

Background

GitLab has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-85706) affecting GitLab. The vulnerability has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS v3.1) score of 10 out of 10.

Impact

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from the GitLab server due to improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement in the repository commits API.

Known Exploitation

The vulnerability is reportedly being actively exploited, and a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available.

Affected Products

The vulnerability affects the following products:

  • GitLab Community Edition 18.7.0 – 19.1.7

  • GitLab Community Edition 19.2.0 – 19.2.5

  • GitLab Community Edition 19.3.0 – 19.3.1

  • GitLab Enterprise Edition 18.7.0 – 19.1.7

  • GitLab Enterprise Edition 19.2.0 – 19.2.5

  • GitLab Enterprise Edition 19.3.0 – 19.3.1

Recommendations

Users and administrators of affected products are advised to update to the latest versions immediately.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85706 (opens in new tab)     

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-85706 (opens in new tab)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-hackers-now-exploit-max-severity-gitlab-flaw-in-attacks/ (opens in new tab)