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Incorrect Authorization

CVE-2019-13001

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.9 and later through 12.0.2. GitLab Snippets were vulnerable to an authorization issue that allowed unauthorized users to add comments to a private snippet. It allows authentication bypass.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization

Authorization is a security mechanism performed by an application to grant or deny access to the requested resources by verifying the privileges of the user. When an application lacks effective authorization mechanisms, it enables unauthorized users to gain unintended privileges and illegitimate access to resources. Such a vulnerability may result in exposure of sensitive information, denial of service, arbitrary code execution, and complete system takeover.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published