CVE-2019-18457 describes an insecure permissions vulnerability within GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions, affecting versions 11.8 through 12.4, specifically concerning the handling of security tokens. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a network-based attack with low attack complexity and requiring low privileges, but potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is currently unavailable, and community discussion and media coverage are minimal, with only one article from GitLab Security acknowledging the fix.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 11.8.0, <= 12.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 11.8.0, <= 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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.