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2026-016: Critical Vulnerability in GitLab CE and EE

On 12 October 2026, GitLab released versions 19.4.2, 19.3.4 and 19.2.8 of GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), fixing 24 security issues among which a critical vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the server.<br> CERT-EU strongly recommends upgrading self-managed GitLab CE/EE instances to a fixed version as soon as possible, starting with internet-facing instances.<br>
CRITICAL
Severity & confidence
Source severitycritical
Platform severitycritical
Confidencehigh
Exploitationunknown
CVSS-
Affected
CountriesEU
Reporting sources (1)
CERT-EU - Security Advisories
Open source โ†—
Timeline & provenance
Published2026-10-12T13:10:32
Last updated2026-10-21T05:52:00
Ingested2026-10-12T13:10:32
FreshnessNEAR-REAL-TIME
Threat typevulnerability
Recommended action
No recommended action published with this item - review the original source.
Next steps
  1. Identify affected systems in your environment.
  2. Apply the vendor patch or mitigation guidance.
  3. Review logs for indicators described in the advisory.
  4. Follow the affected vendor/product to track updates.
Confidence explanation
Reported by a government or cert-grade source (CISA, NCSC, NVD, ENISA, MSRC).
Source type: gov ยท Original: CERT-EU - Security Advisories