# CVE-2026-85706: GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Vulnerability

- Exploited (CISA KEV): yes, added 2026-09-11
- Published: 2026-09-12
- CVSS: 10 CRITICAL (v3.1)
- EPSS: 97.4% (100th percentile)
- CWE: CWE-22

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 before 18.11.12, 19.0 before 19.0.9, 19.1 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that, under certain conditions, an unauthenticated user could have read arbitrary files from the GitLab server due to improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement in the repository commits API.

## Edge WAF coverage (claimed by vendors, not measured)

| Vendor | Status | First rule | Days after publication |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Blocks by default | 2026-09-30 | 18 |
| AWS | No public claim | — | — |
| Microsoft Azure | No public claim | — | — |
| Google Cloud | No public claim | — | — |
| Fastly | Before feed history | — | — |
| F5 | No public claim | — | — |
| Akamai | No public source | — | — |
| OWASP CRS | No public claim | — | — |

### Cloudflare

- 2026-09-30 · new · rule c825487afc274e34966052bb87ae8cfc · default Block
  > GitLab - Path Traversal- CVE:CVE-2026-85706. Previous action: Log. New action: Block. This is a new detection.
  Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-09-30-waf-release/

## Our test (measured)

- OWASP Core Rule Set 4.25.0, paranoia level 1, anomaly threshold 5, default CRS settings: passed (0 of 1 requests blocked), template CVE-2026-85706, 2026-11-02
- OWASP Core Rule Set 4.25.0, paranoia level 2, anomaly threshold 5, default CRS settings: passed (0 of 1 requests blocked), template CVE-2026-85706, 2026-11-02

"No public claim" means no vendor statement names this CVE; "Before feed history" means the CVE is older than the vendor feed. In both cases generic rules may still block it.

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