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CVE-2018-20496

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-20496 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions across several 11.2.x through 11.6.x versions. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) requires user interaction and low privileges, allowing an attacker to inject malicious scripts, potentially leading to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit modules available, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.10.0, < 11.4.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 8.10.0, < 11.4.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 11.5.0, < 11.5.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 11.5.0, < 11.5.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 11.6.0, < 11.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
44.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0060 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 15,239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 / 2018/12/31/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-6-dot-1-released
Vendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/54427
ExploitVendor Advisory