CVE-2020-13296 — An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting versions >=10

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting versions >=10.7 <13.0.14, >=13.1.0 <13.1.8, >=13.2.0 <13.2.6. Improper Access Control for Deploy Tokens

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting versions >=10.7 <13.0.14, >=13.1.0 <13.1.8, >=13.2.0 <13.2.6. Improper Access Control for Deploy Tokens

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
GitLab	GitLab	>=10.7 <13.0.14, >=13.1.0 <13.1.8, >=13.2.0 <13.2.6

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: 2020-09-29T15:54:15.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T12:11:19.552Z

09References

• gitlab.com — https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/235996
• hackerone.com — https://hackerone.com/reports/957459
• gitlab.com — https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2020/CVE-2020-13296.json