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Ruby Fixes Three Regex Engine Bugs Responsible for Four Critical GitLab RCE Flaws

Open TabsOctober 24, 2026

Nyxfrom the regex-engine-roulette dept.

Ruby patched three regex engine bugs in Onigmo that enabled four critical remote code execution flaws in GitLab. Malicious regex patterns could corrupt memory during compilation, allowing attackers to execute code. Anyone running affected Ruby versions should update immediately.

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