GitLab Community Edition/Enterprise Edition prior 11.3.11/11.4.8/11.5.1 race condition

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition. It has been classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to race condition. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-19572. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition (Bug Tracking Software). This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

GitLab CE 8.17 and later and EE 8.3 and later have a symlink time-of-check-to-time-of-use race condition that would allow unauthorized access to files in the GitLab Pages chroot environment. This is fixed in versions 11.5.1, 11.4.8, and 11.3.11.

The weakness was shared 07/10/2019 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at about.gitlab.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-19572 since 11/26/2018. 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 vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 119271 (FreeBSD : Gitlab -- Multiple vulnerabilities (8a4aba2d-f33e-11e8-9416-001b217b3468)), 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 l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 371769 (GitLab Multiple Security Vulnerabilities).

Upgrading to version 11.3.11, 11.4.8 or 11.5.1 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 (119271). The entries VDB-135175, VDB-137632, VDB-137633 and VDB-137634 are related to this item. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Race condition
CWE: CWE-362
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 119271
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : Gitlab -- Multiple vulnerabilities (8a4aba2d-f33e-11e8-9416-001b217b3468)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Community Edition/Enterprise Edition 11.3.11/11.4.8/11.5.1

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11/26/2018 🔍
11/28/2018 +2 days 🔍
11/29/2018 +1 days 🔍
07/10/2019 +223 days 🔍
07/11/2019 +1 days 🔍
06/23/2024 +1809 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: gitlab.com

Advisory: 98
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2018-19572 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-19572
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-137639
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Entryinfo

Created: 07/11/2019 10:15
Updated: 06/23/2024 17:20
Changes: 07/11/2019 10:15 (64), 07/03/2020 12:57 (1), 10/24/2023 09:14 (4), 06/23/2024 17:20 (16)
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