Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection') in GitLab (GitLab GitLab)

CVE-2026-88765
HIGH 8.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.68 % · percentile 52 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitLab
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 12.3 to 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 under certain conditions could allow an authenticated user to achieve remote code execution by importing a specially crafted Git project export to overflow the Unicode conversion buffer used in Advanced Search indexing.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-77 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
  • CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitLab
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · cve@gitlab.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
GitLab · GitLabaffected 12.3 < 19.1.8 ; affected 19.2 < 19.2.6 ; affected 19.3 < 19.3.2

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD