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CVE-2018-16050

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.1)—

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.1.x before 11.1.5 and 11.2.x before 11.2.2. There is Persistent XSS in the Merge Request Changes View.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Gitlab — Gitlab

CWEs

References

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