Critical severity · published Sep 16, 2019
CVE-2019-15741
An issue was discovered in GitLab Omnibus 7.4 through 12.2.1
9.8
CVSS
3.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in GitLab Omnibus 7.4 through 12.2.1. An unsafe interaction with logrotate could result in a privilege escalation
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.1% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OM
Omnibus · Gitlab
7.4.0 before 12.0.8; 12.1.0 before 12.1.8; 12.2.0 before 12.2.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15741
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15741
Exploit
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154734/GitLab-Omnibus-12.2.1-Logrotate-Privilege-Escalation.html
Exploit
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Oct/7
Broken Link
https://about.gitlab.com/2019/08/29/security-release-gitlab-12-dot-2-dot-3-released/
Exploit
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/4380