CVE-2018-17455 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition before 11.1.7, 11.2.x before 11.2.4, and 11.3.x before 11.3.1. Attackers could obtain sensitive information about group names, avatars, LDAP settings, and descriptions via an insecure direct object reference to the "merge request approvals" feature.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00087.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gitlab	Gitlab

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:11.3.0::::community:::
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:11.3.0::::enterprise:::

No data.

No data.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2018/10/01/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-3-dot-1-released/

History

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-04-15T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-02-06T20:18:51.858Z

Reserved: 2018-09-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-17455

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:47:04.910Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-15T23:15:13.637

Modified: 2025-02-06T21:15:11.797

Link: CVE-2018-17455

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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