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CVE-2018-19572 json

GitLab CE 8.17 and later and EE 8.3 and later have a symlink time-of-check-to-time-of-use race condition that would allow unauthorized acce…

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-11261

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 60%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

GitLab CE 8.17 and later and EE 8.3 and later have a symlink time-of-check-to-time-of-use race condition that would allow unauthorized access to files in the GitLab Pages chroot environment. This is fixed in versions 11.5.1, 11.4.8, and 11.3.11.

Patch / fix

  • gitlab gitlab 11.3.11, 11.4.8, 11.5.1

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Exploit prediction

0.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
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References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.