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Max-Severity GitLab Vulnerability Exploited Against Alpine Linux

SecurityWeek
· October 30, 2026
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A high-severity vulnerability in GitLab, identified as CVE-2026-97229, is being exploited by attackers. This bug enables unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on a server. The vulnerability is specifically being targeted against Alpine Linux.

Vulnerabilities mentioned

CVE-2026-97229
CRITICAL
CVSS 10
CISA KEV

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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