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CVE-2019-5461

Status: ModifiedLow (3.5)—

An input validation problem was discovered in the GitHub service integration which could result in an attacker being able to make arbitrary POST requests in a GitLab instance's internal network. This vulnerability was addressed in 12.1.2, 12.0.4, and 11.11.6.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Gitlab — Gitlab

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