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CVE-2018-20499

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-20499 describes a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability affecting GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions across several versions prior to 11.4.13, 11.5.6, and 11.6.1. This high-severity flaw, with a CVSS score of 7.2, allows an unauthenticated attacker to initiate requests from the GitLab server to internal or external resources, potentially leading to information disclosure or limited system compromise. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the security community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 11.0.0, < 11.4.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 11.0.0, < 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

7.2HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0073 is in the 26th 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 / 2018/12/31/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-6-dot-1-released
Vendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/55439
Vendor Advisory