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CVE-2019-10109

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-05-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

An Information Exposure issue (issue 1 of 2) was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.7.8, 11.8.x before 11.8.4, and 11.9.x before 11.9.2. EXIF geolocation data were not removed from images when uploaded to GitLab. As a result, anyone with access to the uploaded image could obtain its geolocation, device, and software version data (if present).

Affected products

• GitLab: before 11.7.8; from 11.8.0 before 11.8.4; from 11.9.0 before 11.9.2 — fixed in 11.7.8, 11.8.4, 11.9.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 11.7.8, 11.8.4, 11.9.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://about.gitlab.com/2019/04/01/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-9-dot-4-released/
• https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/54220
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/55469
• https://about.gitlab.com/2019/04/01/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-9-dot-4-released/
• https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/54220
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/55469

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