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#6 SecurityWeek general October 30, 2026 at 09:32 UTC

Max-Severity GitLab Vulnerability Exploited Against Alpine Linux

By Ionut Arghire

AI Summary

CVE-2026-97229, a maximum-severity unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in GitLab, is being actively exploited in the wild, with confirmed attacks targeting Alpine Linux instances. CISA added the flaw to its KEV catalog, and organizations running self-managed GitLab instances should apply the patch released earlier this month immediately. Exploitation of GitLab RCE bugs historically leads to source code theft, CI/CD pipeline compromise, and lateral movement into downstream environments.

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Relevance score: 85.0/100

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