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CVE-2019-5472 json

An authorization issue was discovered in Gitlab versions < 12.1.2, < 12.0.4, and < 11.11.6 that prevented owners and maintainer to delete e…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-15054

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An authorization issue was discovered in Gitlab versions < 12.1.2, < 12.0.4, and < 11.11.6 that prevented owners and maintainer to delete epic comments.

Patch / fix

  • gitlab gitlab 11.11.6, 12.0.4, 12.1.2

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Exploit prediction

1.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/11381 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • GitLab GitLab

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
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References

Sources

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