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CVE-2019-5883

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.1)—

An Incorrect Access Control issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 6.0 and later but before 11.3.11, 11.4.x before 11.4.8, and 11.5.x before 11.5.1. The issue comments feature could allow a user to comment on an issue which they shouldn't be allowed to.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

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