Improper Privilege Management in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2019-5462

 

Improper Privilege Management in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2019-5462

Published: January 28, 2020 / Updated: July 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU30402
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-5462
CWE-ID: CWE-269
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 non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

A privilege escalation issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE 9.0 and later when trigger tokens are not rotated once ownership of them has changed.


How to mitigate CVE-2019-5462

Install update from vendor's website.

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