Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2019-15728
Published: November 19, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU22826
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15728
CWE-ID: CWE-918
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GitLab, Inc
Affected software:
Gitlab Community Edition
Gitlab Community Edition
Detailed vulnerability description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the Kubernetes integration in GitLab. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the affected server and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-15728
Install updates from vendor's website.