CVE-2016-9469

HIGHEPSS 82th pctl

8.2

CVSS v3

Description

Multiple versions of GitLab expose a dangerous method to any authenticated user that could lead to the deletion of all Issue and MergeRequest objects on a GitLab instance. For GitLab instances with publicly available projects this vulnerability could be exploited by an unauthenticated user. A fix was included in versions 8.14.3, 8.13.8, and 8.12.11, which were released on December 5th 2016 at 3:59 PST. The GitLab versions vulnerable to this are 8.13.0, 8.13.0-ee, 8.13.1, 8.13.1-ee, 8.13.2, 8.13.2-ee, 8.13.3, 8.13.3-ee, 8.13.4, 8.13.4-ee, 8.13.5, 8.13.5-ee, 8.13.6, 8.13.6-ee, 8.13.7, 8.14.0, 8.14.0-ee, 8.14.1, 8.14.2, and 8.14.2-ee.

CWE-749 CWE-264Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

How to fix

Remediation Available

gitlabDebian

Fixed in:8.13.6+dfsg2-2CVE-2016-9469

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CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityLow

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

Exploit Intelligence

2.40%probability of exploitation in 30 days

82ndpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 82% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch4

Exploit2

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Common questions

How do I fix CVE-2016-9469?

Upgrade gitlab on debian unstable to 8.13.6+dfsg2-2 or later.

Is CVE-2016-9469 being actively exploited?

Not that we know of. CVE-2016-9469 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 2.4% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 82% of all scored CVEs.

How severe is CVE-2016-9469?

CVE-2016-9469 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.2, rated high. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.

What does CVE-2016-9469 affect?

Published advisories record a fix for gitlab (Debian). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.

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