CVE-2019-10116 — An Insecure Permissions issue (issue 3 of 3) was discovered in GitLab Community

An Insecure Permissions issue (issue 3 of 3) was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.7.8, 11.8.x before 11.8.4, and 11.9.x before 11.9.2. Guests of a project were allowed to see Related Branches created for an issue.

01What is this vulnerability?

An Insecure Permissions issue (issue 3 of 3) was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.7.8, 11.8.x before 11.8.4, and 11.9.x before 11.9.2. Guests of a project were allowed to see Related Branches created for an issue.

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: 2019-05-16T14:55:14.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T22:10:09.893Z

09References

• about.gitlab.com — https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/
• about.gitlab.com — https://about.gitlab.com/2019/04/01/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-9-dot-4-relea…
• gitlab.com — https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/56224