HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2019-6788

Gitlab vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.3%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It allows Information Disclosure (issue 3 of 6). For installations using GitHub or Bitbucket OAuth integrations, it is possible to use a covert redirect to obtain the user OAuth token for those services.
Affected vendor
Gitlab
Affected product
Gitlab
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Published
2019-09-09

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 4.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-6788

  • Confirm whether Gitlab Gitlab is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-6788.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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