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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.