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GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition · Path traversal

GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Vulnerability

CVE-2026-85706

What this means

This is rated critical severity (10 out of 10). It is on the known-exploited catalogue, which means attacks using it have already been seen. Ask IT whether Gitlab Gitlab is in your estate, and treat that as the priority.

Full vendor 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.

Scoring and exploitation

10.0/ 10
CVSS 3.1 base scoreCritical

Exploitable over the network without any account, and no one has to click or open anything. High impact on confidentiality and integrity, and it can reach beyond the vulnerable system.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Exploitability

Longer bar: easier to attack

Attack vectorNetworkAV:N
Attack complexityLowAC:L
Privileges requiredNonePR:N
User interactionNoneUI:N
ScopeChangedS:C

Impact

Longer bar: more harm

ConfidentialityHighC:H
IntegrityHighI:H
AvailabilityNoneA:N
Elevated attack likelihood (~97.4% in 30 days)Model estimate (): a probability signal, not confirmed exploitation
Exploited in the wild
Yes — confirmed exploitation (US CISA )
Not reported
Listed product
GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products ()

  • Gitlab Gitlab
Show the raw CPE strings (2)
  • cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

References

3 links from the CVE record, grouped by site.

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