CVE-2018-12606
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition before 10.7.6, 10.8.x...
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition before 10.7.6, 10.8.x before 10.8.5, and 11.x before 11.0.1. The wiki contains a persistent XSS issue due to a lack of output encoding affecting a specific markdown feature.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition before 10.7.6, 10.8.x before 10.8.5, and 11.x before 11.0.1. The wiki contains a persistent XSS issue due to a lack of output encoding affecting a specific markdown feature.
- Record
CVE-2018-12606- CVSS 3.0
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 3.5 Low
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition before 10.7.6, 10.8.x before 10.8.5, and 11.x before 11.0.1. The wiki contains a persistent XSS issue due to a lack of output encoding affecting a specific markdown feature.
- Record
CVE-2018-12606- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2018-4565 No score
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition before 10.7.6, 10.8.x before 10.8.5, and 11.x before 11.0.1. The wiki contains a persistent XSS issue due to a lack of output encoding affecting a specific markdown feature.
- Record
EUVD-2018-4565- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-3p78-2x5r-gjpp
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition before 10.7.6, 10.8.x...
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition before 10.7.6, 10.8.x before 10.8.5, and 11.x before 11.0.1. The wiki contains a persistent XSS issue due to a lack of output encoding affecting a specific markdown feature.
- Record
GHSA-3p78-2x5r-gjpp- CVSS 3.0
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition before 10.7.6, 10.8.x before 10.8.5, and 11.x before 11.0.1. The wiki contains a persistent XSS issue due to a lack of output encoding affecting a specific markdown feature.
- Record
CVE-2018-12606- CVSS 3.0
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2018-12606
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition before 10.7.6, 10.8.x before 10.8.5, and 11.x before 11.0.1. The wiki contains a persistent XSS issue due to a lack of output encoding affecting a specific markdown feature.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12606- CVSS 3.0
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
gitlabUbuntu:16.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 8.4.3+dfsg-98.4.3+dfsg-128.5.8+dfsg-5 |
None known |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2018-12606 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) in Gitlab, published August 3, 2018. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.72%, the 54th percentile. No source names a fixed version.