CVE-2018-20229 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.3.14, 11.4.x before 11.4.12, and 11.5.x before 11.5.5 allows Directory Traversal.

Published: 2019-04-04

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 1.7% 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

n/a

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:::*

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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-2018-12795	GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.3.14, 11.4.x before 11.4.12, and 11.5.x before 11.5.5 allows Directory Traversal.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01734.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/12/20/critical-security-release-gitlab-11-dot-5-dot-5-released/
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Gitlab Gitlab

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-04-04T16:54:07.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:58:18.635Z

Reserved: 2018-12-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-20229

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-04-04T17:29:00.890

Modified: 2026-06-17T01:52:31.037

Link: CVE-2018-20229

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-22
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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