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GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229

Hacker News

· October 28, 2026

AI summary

A security incident occurred at GitLab involving the attempted exploitation of a vulnerability. The incident is related to CVE-2026-97229, though details of the vulnerability are not provided in the available information. An article about the incident is available on the Alpine Linux website. The article has been discussed on Hacker News, where it received 42 points and generated 3 comments. Further discussion can be found on the corresponding Hacker News comments page.

Vulnerabilities mentioned

CVE-2026-97229

CRITICAL

CVSS 10

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 19.2 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before 19.3.5, and 19.4 before 19.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed 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.

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