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CVE-2019-14943

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-14943 is a critical vulnerability affecting GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions 12.0 through 12.1.4, stemming from the use of hard-coded credentials. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and it's not on the KEV catalog, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the security community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 12.0, <= 12.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 12.0, <= 12.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 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 / 2019/08/12/critical-security-release-gitlab-12-dot-1-dot-6-released
Vendor Advisory
about.gitlab.com / blog/categories/releases
Release NotesVendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/4530
Broken Link