CVE•Published 2026-09-12•Modified 2026-09-12•2 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-85706
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
10.0
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 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.
Timeline
Published 2026-09-12
Modified 2026-09-12
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-85706Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-85706Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-85706Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-85706GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-85706" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (6)
CVE-2026-857066 repos
0xMarcio/pocindexPython
Search 82,000+ public CVE proof-of-concept exploits from GitHub, Nuclei, ExploitDB, Metasploit and Vulhub.
guneykabel/cve-2026-85706Python
Exploit poc for CVE-2026-85706 an unauthenticated arbitrary file read on Gitlab CE-EE affecting versions: 18.7–19.1.7; 19.2.0–19.2.5; 19.3.0–19.3.1
jpremchander/dskeeperPython
to keep up the GitHub contributions
DevGreick/devgreickPython
FlowerWitch/CVE-2026-85706_docker_expunknown
CVE-2026-85706_docker_exp
mhtsec/CVE-2026-85706Python
GitLab CE/EE unauthenticated path traversal (CVE-2026-85706) - PoC