GitLab Community Edition/Enterprise Edition up to 9.x/10.x/11.8.7/11.6.5/11.7.0 Access Control privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 9.x/10.x/11.8.7/11.6.5/11.7.0 (Bug Tracking Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing 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 09/09/2019. The advisory is shared at about.gitlab.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-6995 since 01/28/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are 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 11.8.8, 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, 135247 and 135248 are pretty similar.

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• Bug Tracking Software

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• GitLab

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• Enterprise Edition

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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)
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 121522
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : Gitlab -- Multiple vulnerabilities (467b7cbe-257d-11e9-8573-001b217b3468)
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Remediation: 🔍Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Community Edition/Enterprise Edition 11.8.8/11.6.6/11.7.1

01/28/2019 CVE assigned
01/31/2019 +3 days Countermeasure disclosed
02/01/2019 +1 days Nessus plugin released
09/09/2019 +220 days Advisory disclosed
09/10/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
09/10/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateVendor: gitlab.com

Advisory: about.gitlab.com

CVE: CVE-2019-6995 (🔒)
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Created: 09/10/2019 10:23 AM
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