CVE-2026-85706

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in GitLab

At a glance

Severity: CRITICAL 10.0
Exploitation: Known exploited (CISA KEV) · added 2026-09-11
Exploited per ENISA since 2026-09-11
EPSS: EPSS 97.36 % · percentile 100 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-09-12
Updated: 2026-09-23
Assigner: GitLab
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

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.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 10.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	GitLab
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 10.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	NVD · cve@gitlab.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-76779
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-85706

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-1242 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans GitLab · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-1160 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans GitLab · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* ≥ 18.7.0 < 18.11.12
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* ≥ 18.7.0 < 18.11.12
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* ≥ 19.0.0 < 19.0.9
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* ≥ 19.0.0 < 19.0.9
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* ≥ 19.1.0 < 19.1.8
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* ≥ 19.1.0 < 19.1.8
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* ≥ 19.2.0 < 19.2.6
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* ≥ 19.2.0 < 19.2.6
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* ≥ 19.3.0 < 19.3.2
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* ≥ 19.3.0 < 19.3.2

Affected products

Product	Versions
GitLab · GitLab	affected 18.7 < 18.11.12 ; affected 19.0 < 19.0.9 ; affected 19.1 < 19.1.8 ; affected 19.2 < 19.2.6 ; affected 19.3 < 19.3.2

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities	CC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD