High severity · published Feb 5, 2020
CVE-2020-7972
GitLab EE 12.2 has Insecure Permissions (issue 2 of 2)
7.5
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
GitLab EE 12.2 has Insecure Permissions (issue 2 of 2).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 59% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GI
GitLab · GitLab
12.0 before 12.5.9; 12.6.0 before 12.6.6; 12.7.0 before 12.7.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7972
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7972
Release Notes
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/
Release Notes
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/01/30/security-release-gitlab-12-7-4-released/
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