GitLab Community/Enterprise up to 11.6.9/11.7.5/11.8.0 information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in GitLab Community and Enterprise up to 11.6.9/11.7.5/11.8.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2019-9178. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in GitLab Community and Enterprise up to 11.6.9/11.7.5/11.8.0 (Bug Tracking Software). This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. 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. The summary by CVE is:

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.6.10, 11.7.x before 11.7.6, and 11.8.x before 11.8.1. It allows Information Exposure (issue 4 of 5).

The bug was discovered 03/04/2019. The weakness was presented 04/17/2019 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at about.gitlab.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-9178 since 02/26/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 44 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 371751 (GitLab Multiple Security Vulnerability).

Upgrading to version 11.6.10, 11.7.6 or 11.8.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

See VDB-133457, VDB-133458, VDB-133459 and VDB-133460 for similar entries. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Bug Tracking Software

Vendor

• GitLab

Name

• Community
• Enterprise

Version

• 11.0
• 11.1
• 11.2
• 11.3
• 11.4
• 11.5
• 11.6
• 11.6.0
• 11.6.1
• 11.6.2
• 11.6.3
• 11.6.4
• 11.6.5
• 11.6.6
• 11.6.7
• 11.6.8
• 11.6.9
• 11.7
• 11.7.0
• 11.7.1
• 11.7.2
• 11.7.3
• 11.7.4
• 11.7.5
• 11.8.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://gitlab.com/

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