CVE-2026-97229: Critical GitLab RCE

Reported by SOCRadar (Ameer Owda)

Summary by Cyber Security News13 Oct 2026, 11:56 CEST

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CVE-2026-97229: Critical GitLab RCE GitLab has issued an urgent patch for CVE-2026-97229, a maximum severity integer overflow vulnerability residing in its CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler. Left unaddressed, the security flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code and gain complete control over self-managed GitLab servers. Classified with a max severity score, the flaw demands immediate attention.

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