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CVE-2018-19856

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-19856 describes a Directory Traversal vulnerability within the Templates API of GitLab CE/EE, affecting versions prior to 11.3.12, 11.4.10, and 11.5.3. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.5) allows an unauthenticated attacker to access sensitive information without user interaction, potentially leading to a complete compromise of confidentiality. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, the vulnerability has received some community and media attention, indicating its potential impact.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 11.3.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
< 11.3.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 11.4.0, < 11.4.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 11.4.0, < 11.4.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 11.5.0, < 11.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0227 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 / 2018/12/06/critical-security-release-gitlab-11-dot-5-dot-3-released
Vendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/54857
ExploitVendor Advisory