CVE-2026-9694 Details
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.9 before 18.10.8, 18.11 before 18.11.5, and 19.0 before 19.0.2 that under certain conditions, could have allowed an unauthenticated user to impersonate the GitLab Support Bot and inject arbitrary content via a specially crafted Service Desk email reply due to improper neutralization in email template processing.
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2026-9694
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System): EPSS predicts the likelihood that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild. A higher percentage means a greater chance of an exploit occurring. The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%).
0.21 Probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days (11th percentile)
CVSS score for CVE-2026-9694
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System): An open framework owned and managed by FIRST.Org, Inc. that assigns a numerical score from 0 to 10 to software vulnerabilities to indicate their severity.
2.6 Low
Products affected by CVE-2026-9694
GitLab 16.4.0
GitLab 16.4.1
GitLab 16.4.3
GitLab 16.5.0
GitLab 16.5.1
DVE Score by Bitsight AI
DVE scores complement traditional static scoring systems like CVSS with Bitsight AI powered real-time threat intelligence and underground cyber criminal activity so that security teams can reduce alert fatigue and focus on vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited.
Low
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CVE-2026-9694 Global Footprint

Top 10 Identified Countries

Country Observations Percentage
DE 3,470 18.43%
US 3,438 18.26%
RU 2,605 13.83%
CN 1,203 6.39%
FR 936 4.97%
SG 631 3.35%
GB 451 2.39%
FI 443 2.35%
NL 422 2.24%
RO 421 2.24%

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CVE-2026-9694 Industry Footprint

Top 10 Identified Industries

*Service provider organizations (typically Technology and Telecommunications) are disproportionally represented in the results given their upstream ownership of end-user infrastructure. See our FAQs.

Industry* Observations Percentage
Technology 12,488 85.39%
Telecommunications 1,637 11.19%
Education 245 1.68%
Government/Politics 69 0.47%
Business Services 37 0.25%
Manufacturing 25 0.17%
Retail 18 0.12%
Energy/Resources 16 0.11%
Engineering 15 0.10%
Finance 14 0.10%

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