CVE-2026-85706

⛔ critical

Summary

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.

CVSS Score

10.0

Critical

EPSS Score

14.6

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-09-12

First Seen: 2026-09-13

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Extremely High Risk - more severe than 100.0% of all 360,548 vulnerabilities in our database.

Top 5% most severe

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Sep 12, 2026

🔍 Exploitation Status

Active

Exploits detected in the wild

⚙️ Automatable

YES

Can be exploited automatically

💥 Technical Impact

Total

Complete system compromise possible

🏆 Discovered By

Thanks [s3ntago](https://hackerone.com/s3ntago) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-09-14

Source NVD 🔗

CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-22

📦 Affected Products 3

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
gitlab	gitlab	Affected	> 18.7.0 < 19.1.8
gitlab	gitlab	Affected	> 19.2.0 < 19.2.6
gitlab	gitlab	Affected	> 19.3.0 < 19.3.2

🔗 References 3

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/62...

Broken Link

https://hackerone.com/reports/3909881

Permissions Required

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities...

Third Party Advisory US Government Resource

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