CVE-2019-19628

Publication date 5 January 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

In GitLab EE 11.3 through 12.5.3, 12.4.5, and 12.3.8, insufficient parameter sanitization for the Maven package registry could lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities under certain conditions.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gitlab	19.10 eoan	Not in release
	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

alexmurray

This only affects the Enterprise Edition of gitlab and the Community Edition and hence the Ubuntu packaged gitlab is not affected.

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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H