GitLab Community Edition/Enterprise Edition up to 11.5.7/11.6.5/11.7.0 Profile Name Injection privilege escalation

A vulnerability has been 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 vulnerability is a functionality of the component Profile Name Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability (Injection). The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 05/17/2019. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2019-6781 since 01/24/2019. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not 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). The entries 133364, 133425, 135248 and 135249 are 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
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Class: Privilege escalation / Injection (CWE-269)
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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-2019-6781 (?)
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