Is CVE-2016-9469 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2016-9469 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2016-9469?

CVE-2016-9469 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.2 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2016-9469?

CVE-2016-9469 has an EPSS score of 2.40% (82th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9469?

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

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2016-9469

HIGHEPSS 82th pctl

8.2

CVSS v3

NVD

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

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

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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