CVE-2019-5462: A privilege escalation issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE 9.0 and later when trigger tokens are not rotated once ownership of them has changed

High severity · published Jan 28, 2020

CVE-2019-5462

A privilege escalation issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE 9.0 and later when trigger tokens are not rotated once ownership of them has changed

8.8

CVSS

2.5%

EPSS

On KEV

Description

A privilege escalation issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE 9.0 and later when trigger tokens are not rotated once ownership of them has changed.

CVSS vector

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

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Low

Privileges

None

User interaction

Required

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Scope

Unchanged

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.5% · higher than 85% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

GitLab · GitLab

9.0.0 before 11.11.7; 9.0.0 before 11.11.7 · source: NVD

Affected product

GitLab

All GitLab CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5462

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5462

Patch

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/07/29/security-release-gitlab-12-dot-1-dot-2-released/

Exploit

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/58312

Permissions Required

https://hackerone.com/reports/495282