CVE-2026-85706: GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
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.
Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85706
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2026-85706Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 65% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-85706 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Same CVEs, other sources
How other CERTs, PSIRTs and databases cover the vulnerabilities in this advisory.
- unknownexploitedNCSC-2026-0367 [1.00] [H/H] Kwetsbaarheid verholpen in GitLab Community en Enterprise Editionsncsc-nl
- criticalexploitedCVE-2026-85706: GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 before 19.1.8,…nvd
- criticalexploitedGitLab security advisory (AV26-917)cccs
- highexploitedCISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalogcisa
- highexploited[NEU] [hoch] GitLab: Mehrere Schwachstellencert-bund
- unknownexploitedMultiples vulnérabilités dans GitLab (11 septembre 2026)cert-fr-avis
- criticalexploitedGitLab Critical Patch Release: 19.3.2, 19.2.6, 19.1.8gitlab
Recent advisories for GitLab Community Edition
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- unknownexploitedNCSC-2026-0367 [1.00] [H/H] Kwetsbaarheid verholpen in GitLab Community en Enterprise Editionsncsc-nl · 2026-09-12
- unknownNCSC-2026-0297 [1.00] [M/H] Vulnerabilities patched in GitLab Enterprise Edition and Community Editionncsc-nl · 2026-08-13
- unknownNCSC-2026-0222 [1.00] [M/H] Vulnerabilities fixed in GitLab Enterprise Edition and Community Editionncsc-nl · 2026-07-10
- unknownNCSC-2026-0211 [1.00] [M/H] Vulnerabilities fixed in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Editionncsc-nl · 2026-06-25
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-39935: GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2026-02-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2023-7028: GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Improper Access Control Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2024-05-01
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