vulnerability

Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2019-5487: Improper Access Control

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 18, 2019
Added
Apr 22, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An improper access control vulnerability exists in Gitlab EE less thanv12.3.3, less thanv12.2.7, and less thanv12.1.13 that allowed the group search feature with Elasticsearch to return private code, merge requests and commits.

Solution

gitlab-gitlab-upgrade-latest
Title
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