High severity · published Jan 28, 2020
CVE-2019-5468
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
8.8
CVSS
2.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.1% · higher than 82% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GI
GitLab · GitLab
11.11.0 before 11.11.6; 11.11.0 before 11.11.6; 12.0.0 before 12.0.4; 12.0.0 before 12.0.4; 12.1.0 before 12.1.2; 12.1.0 before 12.1.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5468
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5468
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/57556
Permissions Required
https://hackerone.com/reports/493562
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