CVE-2019-13011 — An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 8

An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.11.0 through 12.0.2. By using brute-force a user with access to a project, but not it's repository could create a list of merge requests template names. It has excessive algorithmic complexity.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.11.0 through 12.0.2. By using brute-force a user with access to a project, but not it's repository could create a list of merge requests template names. It has excessive algorithmic complexity.

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: 2020-03-10T17:09:40.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T23:41:09.212Z

09References

• about.gitlab.com — https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/
• about.gitlab.com — https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/07/03/security-release-gitlab-12-dot-0-do…