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CVE-2019-6796

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It allows XSS (issue 2 of 2). The user status field contains a lack of input validation and output encoding that results in a persistent XSS.

Affected products

• GitLab: before 11.5.8; from 11.6.0 through 11.6.5; from 11.7.0 before 11.7.1 — fixed in 11.5.8, 11.7.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 11.5.8, 11.7.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://about.gitlab.com/2019/01/31/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-7-dot-3-released/
• https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/05/critical-security-release-gitlab-11-dot-7-dot-4-released/
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/55320
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/57112
• https://about.gitlab.com/2019/01/31/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-7-dot-3-released/
• https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/05/critical-security-release-gitlab-11-dot-7-dot-4-released/
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/55320
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/57112

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