What is CVE-2019-19088?

CVE-2019-19088 is a critical-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-01-03.

How severe is CVE-2019-19088?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Path Traversal in GitLab

CVE-2019-19088

Gitlab Enterprise Edition (EE) 11.3 through 12.4.2 allows Directory Traversal.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2020-01-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (75.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-09.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 75.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GitLab

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/ (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/11/27/security-release-gitlab-12-5-1-released/ (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-19088?: CVE-2019-19088 is a critical-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-01-03.
How severe is CVE-2019-19088?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.