What is CVE-2020-10981?

CVE-2020-10981 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2020-04-08.

How severe is CVE-2020-10981?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in GitLab

CVE-2020-10981

GitLab EE/CE 9.0 to 12.9 allows a maintainer to modify other maintainers' pipeline trigger descriptions within the same project.

Published 2020-04-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (52.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 53rd percentile — 52.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GitLab

References

about.gitlab.com/releases/categories/releases/ (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/03/26/security-release-12-dot-9-dot-1-released/ (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-10981?: CVE-2020-10981 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2020-04-08.
How severe is CVE-2020-10981?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.