PT-2019-18355 · Gitlab · Gitlab Ce/Ee+1

Ashish R. Padelkar + 1 · Published 2019-04-11 · Updated 2019-09-09 · CVE-2019-6796

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition versions 11.5.8 and earlier, 11.6.x through 11.6.5, 11.7.x through 11.7.0

Description The issue allows for a persistent XSS due to a lack of input validation and output encoding in the user status field. This results in a security problem that can be exploited.

Recommendations For versions 11.5.8 and earlier, update to version 11.5.8 or later. For versions 11.6.x through 11.6.5, update to version 11.6.6 or later. For versions 11.7.x through 11.7.0, update to version 11.7.1 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-6796

Affected Products

Gitlab

Gitlab Ce/Ee

References · 9

• https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/05/critical-security-release-gitlab-11-dot-7-dot-4-released · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-6796 · Vendor Advisory
• https://about.gitlab.com/2019/01/31/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-7-dot-3-released · Vendor Advisory
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/57112 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6796 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6796 · Note
• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/02/05/critical-security-release-gitlab-11-dot-7-dot-4-released · Note
• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/01/31/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-7-dot-3-released · Note
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/55320 · Note