CVE-2018-12605 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition 10.7.x before 10.7.6. The usage of 'url_for' contained a XSS issue due to it allowing arbitrary protocols as a parameter.

Published: 2018-08-03

Score: 5.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2018-4564	An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition 10.7.x before 10.7.6. The usage of 'url_for' contained a XSS issue due to it allowing arbitrary protocols as a parameter.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00658.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/25/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-0-dot-1-released/
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/45168

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Gitlab Gitlab

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-08-03T18:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T08:38:06.327Z

Reserved: 2018-06-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-12605

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-08-03T18:29:00.267

Modified: 2026-06-17T01:38:03.087

Link: CVE-2018-12605

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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