CVE-2018-20491 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 11.3.x and 11.4.x before 11.4.13, 11.5.x before 11.5.6, and 11.6.x before 11.6.1. It allows XSS.

Published: 2019-12-30

Score: 5.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2018-13045	An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 11.3.x and 11.4.x before 11.4.13, 11.5.x before 11.5.6, and 11.6.x before 11.6.1. It allows XSS.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00562.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/12/31/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-6-dot-1-released/
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/54008

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Gitlab Gitlab

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-12-30T21:24:28.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T12:05:16.911Z

Reserved: 2018-12-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-20491

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-12-30T22:15:11.730

Modified: 2026-06-17T01:52:57.733

Link: CVE-2018-20491

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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