What is CVE-2019-9890?

CVE-2019-9890 is a critical-severity vulnerability in GitLab. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2019-04-17.

How severe is CVE-2019-9890?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in GitLab

CVE-2019-9890

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 10.x and 11.x before 11.6.10, 11.7.x before 11.7.6, and 11.8.x before 11.8.1. It has Insecure Permissions.

Published 2019-04-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (67.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-25.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 67th percentile — 67.4% 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

References

about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/ (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
about.gitlab.com/2019/03/04/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-8-dot-1-released/ (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-9890?: CVE-2019-9890 is a critical-severity vulnerability in GitLab. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2019-04-17.
How severe is CVE-2019-9890?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.