Input validation error in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2019-6795
Published: September 9, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30775
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-6795
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
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 has Insufficient Visual Distinction of Homoglyphs Presented to a User. IDN homographs and RTLO characters are rendered to unicode, which could be used for social engineering.
Affected software
Gitlab Community Edition
How to mitigate CVE-2019-6795
Install update from vendor's website.
Gitlab Community Edition - update to 11.7.1