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CVE-2016-9469

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9469 describes a critical vulnerability in multiple versions of GitLab (8.13.0 through 8.14.2) that allowed authenticated users, and unauthenticated users for public projects, to delete all Issue and MergeRequest objects on a GitLab instance. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.2) has a low attack complexity and could lead to significant data loss. While no active exploitation or public exploit code is reported, it garnered some community discussion and media coverage at the time of its disclosure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.13.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:8.13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.13.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:8.13.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
8.13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:8.13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:8.13.1:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
8.13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:8.13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.2HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0240 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

about.gitlab.com / 2016/12/05/cve-2016-9469
PatchVendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/29ceb98b5162677601702704e89d845580372078
PatchVendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/55196497301eea429913f9c4b1b37c42c2e358ce
PatchVendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/f325e4e734e5e486f3b02db176eb629124052b43
PatchVendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25064
ExploitVendor Advisory
hackerone.com / reports/186194
ExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory