vulnerability
Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2016-9469: Exposed Dangerous Method or Function
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Mar 28, 2017 | Apr 22, 2025 | Sep 18, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 28, 2017
Added
Apr 22, 2025
Modified
Sep 18, 2025
Description
Multiple versions of GitLab expose a dangerous method to any authenticated user that could lead to the deletion of all Issue and MergeRequest objects on a GitLab instance. For GitLab instances with publicly available projects this vulnerability could be exploited by an unauthenticated user. A fix was included in versions 8.14.3, 8.13.8, and 8.12.11, which were released on December 5th 2016 at 3:59 PST. The GitLab versions vulnerable to this are 8.13.0, 8.13.0-ee, 8.13.1, 8.13.1-ee, 8.13.2, 8.13.2-ee, 8.13.3, 8.13.3-ee, 8.13.4, 8.13.4-ee, 8.13.5, 8.13.5-ee, 8.13.6, 8.13.6-ee, 8.13.7, 8.14.0, 8.14.0-ee, 8.14.1, 8.14.2, and 8.14.2-ee.
Solution
gitlab-gitlab-upgrade-latest
References
- CWE-749
- CVE-2016-9469
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-9469
- URL-https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/05/cve-2016-9469/
- URL-https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/29ceb98b5162677601702704e89d845580372078
- URL-https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/55196497301eea429913f9c4b1b37c42c2e358ce
- URL-https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/f325e4e734e5e486f3b02db176eb629124052b43
- URL-https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25064
- URL-https://hackerone.com/reports/186194
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