What is CVE-2019-11548?

CVE-2019-11548 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2019-09-09.

How severe is CVE-2019-11548?

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

XSS in GitLab

CVE-2019-11548

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.8.9. It has Incorrect Access Control. Unprivileged members of a project are able to post comments on confidential issues through an authorization issue in the note endpoint.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.007 (50.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/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, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-11548?: CVE-2019-11548 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2019-09-09.
How severe is CVE-2019-11548?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.