CVE-2019-15576 — An information disclosure vulnerability exists in GitLab CE/EE <v12

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in GitLab CE/EE <v12.3.2, <v12.2.6, and <v12.1.12 that allowed an attacker to view private system notes from a GraphQL endpoint.

01What is this vulnerability?

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in GitLab CE/EE <v12.3.2, <v12.2.6, and <v12.1.12 that allowed an attacker to view private system notes from a GraphQL endpoint.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / GitLab CE/EE	12.3.2, 12.2.6, and 12.1.12

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: 2019-12-18T21:00:08.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T00:49:13.643Z

09References

• hackerone.com — https://hackerone.com/reports/633001