CVE-2018-19576 — GitLab CE/EE, versions 8

GitLab CE/EE, versions 8.6 up to 11.x before 11.3.11, 11.4 before 11.4.8, and 11.5 before 11.5.1, are vulnerable to an access control issue that allows a Guest user to make changes to or delete their own comments on an issue, after the issue was made Confidential.

01What is this vulnerability?

GitLab CE/EE, versions 8.6 up to 11.x before 11.3.11, 11.4 before 11.4.8, and 11.5 before 11.5.1, are vulnerable to an access control issue that allows a Guest user to make changes to or delete their own comments on an issue, after the issue was made Confidential.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-07-10T15:35:53.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:37:11.642Z

09References

• about.gitlab.com — https://about.gitlab.com/2018/11/28/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-5-dot-1-relea…
• gitlab.com — https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/51238