CVE-2026-97229: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in GitLab

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Overview On October 12, 2026, GitLab published a critical patch release for CVE-2026-97229 , an integer overflow or wraparound ( CWE-190 ) in the CI/CD regular expression compiler affecting GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). GitLab assigned the vulnerability a CVSSv3.1 score of 10.0 . Under certain conditions, a remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on an affected…

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