CVE-2019-11548
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.8.9. It has...
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.8.9. It has Incorrect Access Control. Unprivileged members of a project are able to post comments on confidential issues through an authorization issue in the note endpoint.
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 and Enterprise Edition before 11.8.9. It has Incorrect Access Control. Unprivileged members of a project are able to post comments on confidential issues through an authorization issue in the note endpoint.
- Record
CVE-2019-11548- CVSS 3.1
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/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 and Enterprise Edition before 11.8.9. It has Incorrect Access Control. Unprivileged members of a project are able to post comments on confidential issues through an authorization issue in the note endpoint.
- Record
CVE-2019-11548- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2019-3219 No score
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.8.9. It has Incorrect Access Control. Unprivileged members of a project are able to post comments on confidential issues through an authorization issue in the note endpoint.
- Record
EUVD-2019-3219- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-j8qf-xxg6-jf5p
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.8.9. It has...
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.8.9. It has Incorrect Access Control. Unprivileged members of a project are able to post comments on confidential issues through an authorization issue in the note endpoint.
- Record
GHSA-j8qf-xxg6-jf5p- CVSS 3.1
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/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 and Enterprise Edition before 11.8.9. It has Incorrect Access Control. Unprivileged members of a project are able to post comments on confidential issues through an authorization issue in the note endpoint.
- Record
CVE-2019-11548- CVSS 3.1
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2019-11548
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.8.9. It has Incorrect Access Control. Unprivileged members of a project are able to post comments on confidential issues through an authorization issue in the note endpoint.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11548- CVSS 3.1
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/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 |
|---|---|---|
| facts | ||
| 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-2019-11548 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) in Gitlab, published September 9, 2019. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.71%, the 54th percentile. No source names a fixed version.