GitLab Community Edition/Enterprise Edition up to 11.5.7/11.6.5/11.7.0 Access Control privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 11.5.7/11.6.5/11.7.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is a part 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 presented 05/17/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-6787 since 01/24/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 121522 (FreeBSD : Gitlab -- Multiple vulnerabilities (467b7cbe-257d-11e9-8573-001b217b3468)), 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 11.5.8, 11.6.6 or 11.7.1 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 (121522). See 133364, 133425, 135247 and 135249 for similar entries.

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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
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Class: Privilege escalation (CWE-269)
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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 121522
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : Gitlab -- Multiple vulnerabilities (467b7cbe-257d-11e9-8573-001b217b3468)
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Upgrade: Community Edition/Enterprise Edition 11.5.8/11.6.6/11.7.1

01/24/2019 CVE assigned
01/31/2019 +7 days Countermeasure disclosed
02/01/2019 +1 days Nessus plugin released
05/17/2019 +105 days Advisory disclosed
05/18/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
05/18/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateCVE: CVE-2019-6787 (?)
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