GitLab Community Edition/Enterprise Edition up to 11.4.12/11.5.5/11.6.0 Access Control privilege escalation
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A vulnerability was found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 11.4.12/11.5.5/11.6.0 (Bug Tracking Software) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Access Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The weakness was disclosed 12/26/2019. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-20492 since 12/26/2018. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 120973 (FreeBSD : Gitlab -- Multiple vulnerabilities (b2f4ab91-0e6b-11e9-8700-001b217b3468)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context local.
Upgrading to version 11.4.13, 11.5.6 or 11.6.1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (120973). The entry 135176 is pretty similar.
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.0
VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.0
VulDB Vector: π
VulDB Reliability: π
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VulDB Base Score: π
VulDB Temp Score: π
VulDB Reliability: π
Class: Privilege escalation (CWE-269)
Local: No
Remote: Yes
Availability: π
Status: Not defined
Price Prediction: π
Current Price Estimation: π
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Nessus ID: 120973
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : Gitlab -- Multiple vulnerabilities (b2f4ab91-0e6b-11e9-8700-001b217b3468)
Nessus File: π
Nessus Risk: π
Nessus Family: π
Nessus Context: π
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Threat: π
Adversaries: π
Geopolitics: π
Economy: π
Predictions: π
Remediation: πRecommended: Upgrade
Status: π
0-Day Time: π
Upgrade: Community Edition/Enterprise Edition 11.4.13/11.5.6/11.6.1
12/26/2018 CVE assigned
01/02/2019 Countermeasure disclosed
01/07/2019 Nessus plugin released
12/26/2019 Advisory disclosed
12/27/2019 VulDB entry created
12/27/2019 VulDB last updateVendor: gitlab.com
CVE: CVE-2018-20492 (π)
See also: πCreated: 12/27/2019 09:01 AM
Complete: π
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