CVE-2026-85706

GitLab urged users on Thursday to patch their servers immediately against a maximum-severity path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-85706. [...]

Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in GitLab ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, erweiterte Berechtigungen zu erlangen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen, sensible Informationen oder Anmeldedaten offenzulegen, Daten zu manipulieren, Cross-Site-Scripting-Angriffe durchzuführen oder Denial-of-Service-Zustände zu verursachen.

GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal issue in the repository commits API that could allow an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files from the GitLab server under