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CVE-2026-85706

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

CVSS 3.1 10.0 CRITICALCheck source for fixed versionsKEV status unknown

Original advisory

Historical advisory recorded 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC. Read the latest advisory.

cve-program · CVE-2026-85706

Published

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.

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Affected versions, risk and source history

cve-program · CVE-2026-85706

Published

GitLab

Vendor product

Publisher's version information

Shown as published. These rules are not interpreted as NuGet package version ranges.

{
                    "cpes": [
                        "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
                    ],
                    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
                    "product": "GitLab",
                    "repo": "git://[email protected]:gitlab-org/gitlab.git",
                    "vendor": "GitLab",
                    "versions": [
                        {
                            "lessThan": "18.11.12",
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "18.7",
                            "versionType": "semver"
                        },
                        {
                            "lessThan": "19.0.9",
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "19.0",
                            "versionType": "semver"
                        },
                        {
                            "lessThan": "19.1.8",
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "19.1",
                            "versionType": "semver"
                        },
                        {
                            "lessThan": "19.2.6",
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "19.2",
                            "versionType": "semver"
                        },
                        {
                            "lessThan": "19.3.2",
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "19.3",
                            "versionType": "semver"
                        }
                    ]
                }

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