What is CVE-2018-12606?

CVE-2018-12606 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2018-08-03.

How severe is CVE-2018-12606?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in GitLab

CVE-2018-12606

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition before 10.7.6, 10.8.x before 10.8.5, and 11.x before 11.0.1. The wiki contains a persistent XSS issue due to a lack of output encoding affecting a specific markdown feature.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.007 (50.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Gitlab
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-12606?: CVE-2018-12606 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2018-08-03.
How severe is CVE-2018-12606?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.