Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gitlab  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-GITLAB-611761
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed28 Jan 2020

Introduced: 28 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-5466  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-639  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gitlab package and not the gitlab package as distributed by Ubuntu.

An IDOR was discovered in GitLab CE/EE 11.5 and later that allowed new merge requests endpoint to disclose label names.