CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-5472

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Jan 28, 2020 | Modified: Jan 31, 2020
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An authorization issue was discovered in Gitlab versions < 12.1.2, < 12.0.4, and < 11.11.6 that prevented owners and maintainer to delete epic comments.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gitlab Gitlab 11.11.0 (including) 11.11.6 (excluding)
Gitlab Gitlab 12.0.0 (including) 12.0.4 (excluding)
Gitlab Gitlab 12.1.0 (including) 12.1.2 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References