CVE-2018-18643 describes a persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting GitLab CE and EE versions 11.2 and later, prior to 11.5.0-rc12, 11.4.6, and 11.3.10. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) has a network attack vector and low attack complexity, requiring user interaction (UI:R) to achieve partial impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit codes like Metasploit or ExploitDB modules available. While it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog or Hot List, indicating a lower immediate threat.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 11.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
<= 11.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 11.3.0, < 11.3.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 11.3.0, < 11.3.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 11.4.0, < 11.4.6CPE 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:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.