CVE-2017-0916

Publication date 21 March 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Gitlab Community Edition version 10.3 is vulnerable to a lack of input validation in the system_hook_push queue through web hook component resulting in remote code execution.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gitlab	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

msalvatore

Affects GitLab CE and EE >= 8.8.0

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H