CVE-2020-8795 describes a vulnerability in GitLab Enterprise Edition versions 12.5.0 through 12.7.5, where sharing a group with another group could inadvertently grant unauthorized users access to projects. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) has a low attack complexity and can lead to unauthorized information disclosure (C:H), requiring no user interaction or privileges to exploit. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is unavailable. While community discussion and media coverage are limited, GitLab released security updates to address this issue.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 12.5.0, <= 12.7.5CPE 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:H/I:N/A:N
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.
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.