CVE-2018-18641 describes a critical cleartext storage of sensitive information vulnerability affecting GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions prior to versions 11.2.7, 11.3.8, and 11.4.3. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating it can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit intelligence like Metasploit or ExploitDB entries are available, the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness. There is no indication of active exploitation, and it is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 8.10.0, < 11.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 8.10.0, < 11.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 11.3.0, < 11.3.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 11.3.0, < 11.3.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 11.4.0, < 11.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.