CVE-2018-17455 (GCVE-0-2018-17455)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-15 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-06 20:18
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition before 11.1.7, 11.2.x before 11.2.4, and 11.3.x before 11.3.1. Attackers could obtain sensitive information about group names, avatars, LDAP settings, and descriptions via an insecure direct object reference to the "merge request approvals" feature.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Assigner
References
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