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GitLab CVE-2026-97229 Actively Exploited: Alpine Linux Incident
- Engineer — Act: A confirmed exploitation attempt combined with a public PoC on GitHub is enough to act even with EPSS at 0.18: identify your GitLab version, apply the security patch addressing CVE-2026-97229 immediately, and review instance logs for unauthorized access attempts.
- SOC/IR — Act: Read the full Alpine Linux incident post for any published IOCs or request patterns, then sweep GitLab authentication and API access logs from the incident date forward for anomalous behavior consistent with this CVE’s attack surface.
- Leader — Plan: This does not yet rise to board-level systemic risk, but confirm with engineering that self-hosted or internally managed GitLab instances are patched; if GitLab SaaS hosts sensitive IP or customer data, request a vendor security statement.
- Signals: CVE-2026-97229 — CISA KEV: not listed, EPSS 0.18, public PoC on GitHub, reported by 2 collected sources
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