CVE-2026-85706: GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Vulnerability

Critical severity, CVSS 10.0. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2026-09-11. EPSS: 93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• GitLab GitLab: from 18.7.0, before 18.11.12 (fixed in 18.11.12); from 19.0.0, before 19.0.9 (fixed in 19.0.9); from 19.1.0, before 19.1.8 (fixed in 19.1.8); from 19.2.0, before 19.2.6 (fixed in 19.2.6); from 19.3.0, before 19.3.2 (fixed in 19.3.2)

Published 2026-09-12. Last modified 2026-09-24.