Gitlab Community Edition version 10.2.4 is vulnerable to lack of input validation in the CI job component resulting in persistent cross sit…

published 2018-03-21 8y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-1260

cvss: 6.1; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits: 0; none known

Gitlab Community Edition version 10.2.4 is vulnerable to lack of input validation in the CI job component resulting in persistent cross site scripting.

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Exploit prediction

1.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	6.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

GitLab GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Technology feeds

GitLab rss critical rss

References

debian.org /security/2018/dsa-4145
vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
about.gitlab.com /2018/01/16/gitlab-10-dot-3-dot-4-released/
vendor-advisory
hackerone.com /reports/299525
permissions-required

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-0917
NVD CVE-2017-0917

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