CVE-2016-9086 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Gitlab

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure4 documents4 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
13.5%
top 5.76%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Debian GitlabGitlabGitlab CE
Timeline
PublishedNov 3
Latest updateMay 17

Description

GitLab versions 8.9.x and above contain a critical security flaw in the "import/export project" feature of GitLab. Added in GitLab 8.9, this feature allows a user to export and then re-import their projects as tape archive files (tar). All GitLab versions prior to 8.13.0 restricted this feature to administrators only. Starting with version 8.13.0 this feature was made available to all users. This feature did not properly check for symbolic links in user-provided archives and therefore it was pos…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/gitlab< gitlab 8.13.3+dfsg1-2 (sid)
▶NVDgitlab/gitlab46 versions+45
▶gitlabgitlab/gitlab

Patches

Patch: about.gitlab.com ↗Patch: about.gitlab.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-8r73-cjhp-chc2: GitLab versions 8↗2022-05-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

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GitLab
CVE-2016-9086: GitLab versions 8.9.x and above contain a critical security flaw in the "import/export project" feature of GitLab. Added in GitLab 8.9, this feature a↗2016-11-03
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Debian
CVE-2016-9086: gitlab - GitLab versions 8.9.x and above contain a critical security flaw in the "import/...↗2016
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