What is CVE-2020-12448?

CVE-2020-12448 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-05-07.

How severe is CVE-2020-12448?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Path Traversal in GitLab

CVE-2020-12448

GitLab EE 12.8 and later allows Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor via NuGet.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2020-05-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (68.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 68.6% 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: 0.013 · change: +0.000

Affected products

GitLab

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/ (Product, Release Notes)
about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/04/30/security-release-12-10-2-released/ (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-12448?: CVE-2020-12448 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-05-07.
How severe is CVE-2020-12448?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.