Server-side request forgery in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2018-18646

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Server-side request forgery in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2018-18646

Published: October 30, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15571
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18646
CWE-ID: CWE-918
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: GitLab, Inc
Affected software:
Gitlab Community Edition

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform SSRF attack.

The weakness exists due to a SSRF issue in the GitLab Hipchat integration. A remote attacker can conduct a server-side request forgery (SSRF) attack and make requests to any local network resource accessible from the GitLab server.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-18646

The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 11.4.3, 11.3.8, 11.2.7.

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