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CVE-2020-7978

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-7978 is a Denial of Service vulnerability affecting GitLab Enterprise Edition versions 12.6 through 12.7.2. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a complete denial of service without requiring user interaction or privileges. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog. Despite limited community discussion, it has received some media coverage, primarily from GitLab's security release announcements.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 12.6.0, < 12.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 12.7.0, <= 12.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
63.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0115 is in the 42nd percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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/categories/releases
Release NotesVendor Advisory
about.gitlab.com / releases/2020/01/30/security-release-gitlab-12-7-4-released
Release NotesVendor Advisory