What is CVE-2018-19572?

CVE-2018-19572 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2019-07-10.

How severe is CVE-2018-19572?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in GitLab

CVE-2018-19572

GitLab CE 8.17 and later and EE 8.3 and later have a symlink time-of-check-to-time-of-use race condition that would allow unauthorized access to files in the GitLab Pages chroot environment. This is fixed in versions 11.5.1, 11.4.8, and 11.3.11.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.009 (56.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Gitlab
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition)

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-19572?: CVE-2018-19572 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2019-07-10.
How severe is CVE-2018-19572?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.