Permissive Regular Expression in GitLab

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-gitlab-2026-14814",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Permissive Regular Expression in GitLab",
    "summary": "GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 19.2.8, 19.3 before 19.3.5, and 19.4 before 19.4.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed a user to poison cached responses for raw repository files, causing targeted users' CI/CD pipelines to execute specially crafted content and potentially exposing protected environment variables, due to improper validation of repository references.",
    "evidence": "osv:BIT-gitlab-2026-14814",
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          {
            "value": "19.2.8",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          },
          {
            "value": "19.3.5",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          },
          {
            "value": "19.4.2",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          }
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      }
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    "severity": "high",
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        "CVE-2026-14814"
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "SEMVER",
              "events": [
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                  "introduced": "0"
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                {
                  "fixed": "19.2.8"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "19.3.0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "19.3.5"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "19.4.0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "19.4.2"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "gitlab",
            "purl": "pkg:bitnami/gitlab",
            "ecosystem": "Bitnami"
          },
          "severity": [
            {
              "type": "CVSS_V3",
              "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N"
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/gitlab/BIT-gitlab-2026-14814.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-16T09:45:07.466791864Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-4-2-released/",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/604950",
        "https://hackerone.com/reports/3832707",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-14814"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cpes": [
          "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
          "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*"
        ],
        "severity": "High"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2026-14814",
        "evidence": "/aliases"
      }
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/database_specific/severity"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 338158,
  "published_at": "2026-10-16T09:02:20.906+00:00"
}