{"id":245828,"date":"2026-10-23T01:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/gitlab-warns-of-new-max-severity-code-execution-vulnerability"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:42:50","slug":"gitlab-warns-of-new-max-severity-code-execution-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/gitlab-warns-of-new-max-severity-code-execution-vulnerability","title":{"rendered":"GitLab warns of new max severity code execution vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GitLab has released security patches for a maximum-severity Regular Expression Compiler flaw that can let remote attackers run arbitrary code on vulnerable servers.<\/p>\n<p>This security issue is tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.gitlab.com\/releases\/patches\/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released\/#cve-2026-110264---integer-overflow-issue-in-regular-expression-compiler-impacts-gitlab-ceee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2026\u2013110264<\/a> and was reported by a security researcher using the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/hackerone.com\/joaxcar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">joaxcar<\/a>\u2019 handle through GitLab\u2019s HackerOne bug bounty program.<\/p>\n<p>CVE-2026\u2013110264 stems from an <a href=\"https:\/\/cwe.mitre.org\/data\/definitions\/190.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">integer overflow weakness<\/a> in GitLab\u2019s Regular Expression Compiler, a background engine that parses and validates regular expressions in configuration files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GitLab has released security patches for a maximum-severity Regular Expression Compiler flaw that can let remote attackers run arbitrary code on vulnerable servers. This security issue is tracked as CVE-2026\u2013110264 and was reported by a security researcher using the \u2018joaxcar\u2019 handle through GitLab\u2019s HackerOne bug bounty program. CVE-2026\u2013110264 stems from an integer overflow weakness in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}