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Improper Privilege Management Affecting gitlab package, versions <12.6.8-3

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-GITLAB-455996
  • published 30 Jul 2019
  • disclosed 28 Jan 2020
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Introduced: 30 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-5468 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-269 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable gitlab to version 12.6.8-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gitlab package and not the gitlab package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

An privilege escalation issue was discovered in Gitlab versions < 12.1.2, < 12.0.4, and < 11.11.6 when Mattermost slash commands are used with a blocked account.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High