GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Vulnerability

GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition

GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files due to an improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement in the repository commits API. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-09-11 (federal deadline 2026-09-14).

First seen: 11 Sept 2026
Last update: 11 Sept 2026, 12:00 UTC
Identifiers: CVE-2026-85706
Source: CISA KEV
On the menu as: GitLab

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## GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Vulnerability
Severity: high, exploited in the wild. Patch status: patched.
Affected: GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition
Ids: CVE-2026-85706

GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files due to an improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement in the repository commits API. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-09-11 (federal deadline 2026-09-14).

## Steps
1. This touches infrastructure (gitlab). Look in terraform, ansible, cloud-init, Dockerfiles and docs for the product and version we run. If it isn't in the repo, say so and list what a human should check on the box.

## Report
A table: file, product or package, version in use, affected yes/no, exact fix. Then anything a human has to check outside the repo.

If you have the pwned.coffee MCP server (https://pwned.coffee/mcp), call lookup_cve("CVE-2026-85706") for the latest, and check_repo with this repo's lockfiles, Dockerfiles and workflows for a full receipt.
Sources: https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-3-2-released/ https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85706
https://pwned.coffee/i/gitlab-community-edition-and-enterprise-edition-path-tra-cve-2026-85706

Sources

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