CISA KEV source record / CVE-2026-97229

GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Integer Overflow or Wraparound Vulnerability

GitLab / Community Edition and Enterprise Edition

Known exploitation catalogNot a Secureline discoveryNot a live alert

GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition contain a integer overflow or wraparound vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the GitLab server via a specially crafted regular expression in a CI/CD configuration, due to insufficient regular expression validation.

CVE identifier
CVE-2026-97229
Added to KEV
Oct 29, 2026
CISA catalog dueDate
Nov 1, 2026

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Publisher's required action

Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.

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Keep the signals separate.

Ransomware use, as reported by CISA
Unknown
CVSS severity
Not supplied by KEV
EPSS probability
Not available

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“Unknown” ransomware use is an unknown source field, not proof that ransomware activity has not occurred.

Source notes

Other products can potentially be affected by the same underlying Ruby/Onigmo Integer Overflow issue in CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler. For more information please see: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/10/23/regexp-fixes-for-gitlab-cves ; https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-4-2-released/ ; BOD 26-04: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk ; Forensics Triage Requirements: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-implementation-guidance-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97229

Source & freshness

Catalog version 2026.11.06
Source updated: Nov 6, 2026, 7:44 PM UTC
Successfully checked: Nov 7, 2026, 3:37 AM UTC

Automated source record, not an editorial advisory or an independent discovery. No affected or fixed version is inferred, and no organisation-specific risk rating is generated.