A vulnerability was found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 12.2.1 (Bug Tracking Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Image Upload. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Location). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 7.9 through 12.2.1. EXIF Geolocation data was not being removed from certain image uploads.

The weakness was disclosed 09/16/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-15740 since 08/28/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. 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 MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Bug Tracking Software

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• GitLab

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• Community Edition
• Enterprise Edition

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• 12.2.0
• 12.2.1

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• open-source

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