Is CVE-2026-97229 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-97229?

CVE-2026-97229 has a CVSS v3 severity of CRITICAL (10).

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CVE-2026-97229

Description

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.

Threat reporting mentioning CVE-2026-97229

GitLab Issues Critical Patch for RCE Vulnerability CVE-2026-97229GitLab has released critical patches for a maximum-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-97229, which allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted re…