CVE-2018-18642 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.2.7, 11.3.x before 11.3.8, and 11.4.x before 11.4.3. It has XSS.

Published: 2018-12-04

Score: 6.1 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:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2018-10358	An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.2.7, 11.3.x before 11.3.8, and 11.4.x before 11.4.3. It has XSS.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00806.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/29/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-4-dot-3-released/
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/52551

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Gitlab Gitlab

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-12-04T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:16:00.101Z

Reserved: 2018-10-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-18642

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-12-04T23:29:00.507

Modified: 2026-06-17T01:47:37.330

Link: CVE-2018-18642

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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

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