Path traversal in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2019-6783
Published: September 9, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30767
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-6783
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.
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. GitLab Pages contains a directory traversal vulnerability that could lead to remote command execution.
Affected software
Gitlab Community Edition
How to mitigate CVE-2019-6783
Install update from vendor's website.
Gitlab Community Edition - update to 11.7.1