CVE-2019-5462 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

A privilege escalation issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE 9.0 and later when trigger tokens are not rotated once ownership of them has changed.

Published: 2020-01-28

Score: 8.8 High

EPSS: 2.5% Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

GitLab

GitLab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`Affects GitLab CE/EE 9.0 and later`	affected	—
`Fixed in 12.1.2 in 12.0.4 and in 11.11.6`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2019-15044	A privilege escalation issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE 9.0 and later when trigger tokens are not rotated once ownership of them has changed.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02528.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/07/29/security-release-gitlab-12-dot-1-dot-2-released/
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/58312
https://hackerone.com/reports/495282

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Gitlab Gitlab

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published: 2020-01-28T02:17:12.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T19:54:53.486Z

Reserved: 2019-01-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-5462

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-01-28T03:15:10.857

Modified: 2026-06-17T02:37:43.903

Link: CVE-2019-5462

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-613
Insufficient Session Expiration

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