What is CVE-2018-16051?

CVE-2018-16051 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-10-03.

How severe is CVE-2018-16051?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in GitLab

CVE-2018-16051

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.0.6, 11.1.x before 11.1.5, and 11.2.x before 11.2.2. There is Orphaned Upload Files Exposure.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2018-10-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (65.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 65.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GitLab

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

about.gitlab.com/2018/08/28/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-2-dot-2-released/ (Vendor Advisory)
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/6012 (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16051?: CVE-2018-16051 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-10-03.
How severe is CVE-2018-16051?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.