CVE-2018-19576 is an access control vulnerability affecting GitLab CE/EE versions 8.6 through 11.5.0. It allows a Guest user to modify or delete their own comments on an issue even after that issue has been marked confidential. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 8.1 (High), indicating a low-complexity network attack that can lead to high integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit codes in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite this, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, with GitLab itself publishing a security release.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 8.6.0, < 11.3.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 8.6.0, < 11.3.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 11.4.0, < 11.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 11.4.0, < 11.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 11.5.0, < 11.5.1CPE 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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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.