What is CVE-2018-14604?

CVE-2018-14604 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-07-27.

How severe is CVE-2018-14604?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in GitLab

CVE-2018-14604

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 10.8.7, 11.0.x before 11.0.5, and 11.1.x before 11.1.2. XSS can occur in the tooltip of the job inside the CI/CD pipeline.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2018-07-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (53.1th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 53rd percentile — 53.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GitLab

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

about.gitlab.com/2018/07/26/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-1-dot-2-released/ (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-14604?: CVE-2018-14604 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-07-27.
How severe is CVE-2018-14604?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.