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CVE-2018-19572

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-19572 describes a time-of-check-to-time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in GitLab CE (8.17+) and EE (8.3+) that could allow unauthorized access to files within the GitLab Pages chroot environment. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.9 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with high complexity, requiring no user interaction, and leading to high confidentiality impact. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness. The issue was addressed in GitLab versions 11.5.1, 11.4.8, and 11.3.11.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.3.0, < 11.3.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 8.17.0, < 11.3.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 11.3.12, < 11.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 11.3.12, < 11.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 11.4.9, < 11.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
56.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0092 is in the 14th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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 / 2018/11/28/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-5-dot-1-released
Release NotesVendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab-pages/issues/98
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory