CVE-2016-9469
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.
EPSS 0.14% · 33.2th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | gitlab | 0, 8.4.3+dfsg-9, 8.4.3+dfsg-12 |
Exploit Intelligence
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25064 (nist-nvd)
- https://hackerone.com/reports/186194 (nist-nvd)
- State filter in IssuableFinder allows attacker to delete all issues and merge requests (hackerone)
- State filter in IssuableFinder allows attacker to delete all issues and merge requests (hackerone)
- State filter in IssuableFinder allows attacker to delete all issues and merge requests (hackerone)
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/f325e4e734e5e486f3b02db176eb629124052b43 (circl)
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/55196497301eea429913f9c4b1b37c42c2e358ce (circl)
- https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/05/cve-2016-9469/ (circl)
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/29ceb98b5162677601702704e89d845580372078 (circl)
Timeline
- CVE Published
- Dec 6, 2016 PoC Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9469 third-party-advisory
- https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/05/cve-2016-9469/ third-party-advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25064 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9469 third-party-advisory