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CVE-2019-18456

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-18456 is an insecure permissions vulnerability affecting GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions versions 8.17 through 12.4, specifically within the Elasticsearch integration's Search feature. With a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to unauthorized information disclosure. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is public exploit code available, though it has received some community and media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.17.0, <= 12.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 8.17.0, <= 12.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0088 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 / blog/2019/10/30/security-release-gitlab-12-dot-4-dot-1-released
Vendor Advisory
about.gitlab.com / blog/categories/releases
Release NotesVendor Advisory