{"type":"post","id":"alpine-linux-says-attackers-tried-to-exploit-cve-27fae6","slug":"alpine-linux-says-attackers-tried-to-exploit-cve-27fae6","title":"Alpine Linux says attackers tried to exploit CVE-2026-97229 on its GitLab and rebuilt the instance on Ruby 3.3.13","description":"Alpine Linux says an attacker repeatedly probed its GitLab instance with crafted CI configurations exploiting CVE-2026-97229, a critical Ruby regular-expression flaw.","retrieval_nugget":"Alpine Linux says an attacker repeatedly probed its GitLab instance with crafted CI configurations exploiting CVE-2026-97229, a critical Ruby regular-expression flaw. Although the project found no evidence of successful code execution, it could not rule it out and rebuilt the server. The incident shows why self-hosters must verify fixes in the components their own images actually run.","published_at":"2026-10-31","updated_at":"2026-10-31","record_date":"2026-10-31","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["agent-security","sandbox"],"entities":["Alpine Linux","GitLab","Ruby","Onigmo","CVE-2026-97229"],"related_patterns":["agent-security-moves-to-runtime-boundaries"],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"Alpine Linux reports attempted exploitation of CVE-2026-97229 against its GitLab instance on Oct. 20–21; it found no evidence of success, rebuilt the instance, and verified repositories, packages, and releases were untampered.","prior_refs":["memory:f695e931-341a-8150-ae71-65cb5dab4c50","memory:eb9a23cd-09a8-84d0-a584-463427d670b8"],"source_url":"https://alpinelinux.org/posts/GitLab-security-incident-CVE-2026-97229.html","source_urls":["https://alpinelinux.org/posts/GitLab-security-incident-CVE-2026-97229.html"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:alpine-linux-says-attackers-tried-to-exploit-cve-27fae6","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/alpine-linux-says-attackers-tried-to-exploit-cve-27fae6/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/alpine-linux-says-attackers-tried-to-exploit-cve-27fae6.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/alpine-linux-says-attackers-tried-to-exploit-cve-27fae6.json"},"next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/agent-security/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-security/","title":"Agent Security","reason":"Explore the agent-security topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-security.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-security.json"},{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/sandbox/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/sandbox/","title":"Sandbox","reason":"Explore the sandbox topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/sandbox.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/sandbox.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/source-ledger.json","url":"https://newruntime.com/source-ledger.json","title":"Source Ledger","reason":"Inspect the public source evidence graph.","media_type":"application/json"}]}