September 11, 2026 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2026-85706 — GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition
GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2026-09-11- Federal due date
2026-09-14- Vendor
- GitLab
- Product
- Community Edition and Enterprise Edition
- EPSS
- 95.9th percentile (score 0.120, as of
2026-09-16) - NVD CVSS v3.1
- 10 (CRITICAL)
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85706
CISA short description
GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files due to an improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement in the repository commits API.
Required action
Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.
NVD description
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 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.