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GitLab Community Edition/Enterprise Edition up to 11.4.12/11.5.5/11.6.0 Server-Side Request Forgery


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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). It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability (SSRF). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-918. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was shared 12/30/2019. The advisory is available at about.gitlab.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-20497 since 12/26/2018. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not 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 even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (120973). The entries 135176, 147767, 147886 and 147887 are related to this item.

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Class: Privilege escalation / SSRF (CWE-918)
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Nessus ID: 120973
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : Gitlab -- Multiple vulnerabilities (b2f4ab91-0e6b-11e9-8700-001b217b3468)
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Upgrade: Community Edition/Enterprise Edition 11.4.13/11.5.6/11.6.1

12/26/2018 CVE assigned
01/02/2019 +7 days Countermeasure disclosed
01/07/2019 +5 days Nessus plugin released
12/30/2019 +357 days Advisory disclosed
12/31/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
12/31/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateVendor: gitlab.com

Advisory: about.gitlab.com

CVE: CVE-2018-20497 (πŸ”’)
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