CVE-2019-5462 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting GitLab CE/EE versions 9.0 and later. It arises when trigger tokens are not rotated after a change in ownership, allowing an attacker to gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit tools like Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the security community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 9.0.0, < 11.11.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.0.0, < 11.11.7CPE 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:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.