CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-9086

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2016-11-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-11-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

GitLab versions 8.9.x and above contain a critical security flaw in the "import/export project" feature of GitLab. Added in GitLab 8.9, this feature allows a user to export and then re-import their projects as tape archive files (tar). All GitLab versions prior to 8.13.0 restricted this feature to administrators only. Starting with version 8.13.0 this feature was made available to all users. This feature did not properly check for symbolic links in user-provided archives and therefore it was possible for an authenticated user to retrieve the contents of any file accessible to the GitLab service account. This included sensitive files such as those that contain secret tokens used by the GitLab service to authenticate users. GitLab CE and EE versions 8.13.0 through 8.13.2, 8.12.0 through 8.12.7, 8.11.0 through 8.11.10, 8.10.0 through 8.10.12, and 8.9.0 through 8.9.11 are affected.

Affected configurations

• gitlab gitlab 8.9.0 • gitlab gitlab 8.9.1 • gitlab gitlab 8.9.2 • gitlab gitlab 8.9.3 • gitlab gitlab 8.9.4 • gitlab gitlab 8.9.5 • gitlab gitlab 8.9.6 • gitlab gitlab 8.9.7 • gitlab gitlab 8.9.8 • gitlab gitlab 8.9.9 • gitlab gitlab 8.9.10 • gitlab gitlab 8.9.11 • gitlab gitlab 8.10.0 • gitlab gitlab 8.10.1 • gitlab gitlab 8.10.2 • gitlab gitlab 8.10.3 • gitlab gitlab 8.10.4 • gitlab gitlab 8.10.5 • gitlab gitlab 8.10.6 • gitlab gitlab 8.10.7 • gitlab gitlab 8.10.8 • gitlab gitlab 8.10.9 • gitlab gitlab 8.10.10 • gitlab gitlab 8.10.11 • gitlab gitlab 8.10.12 • gitlab gitlab 8.11.0 • gitlab gitlab 8.11.1 • gitlab gitlab 8.11.2 • gitlab gitlab 8.11.3 • gitlab gitlab 8.11.4 • gitlab gitlab 8.11.5 • gitlab gitlab 8.11.6 • gitlab gitlab 8.11.7 • gitlab gitlab 8.11.8 • gitlab gitlab 8.11.9 • gitlab gitlab 8.12.0 • gitlab gitlab 8.12.1 • gitlab gitlab 8.12.2 • gitlab gitlab 8.12.3 • gitlab gitlab 8.12.4 • gitlab gitlab 8.12.5 • gitlab gitlab 8.12.6 • gitlab gitlab 8.12.7 • gitlab gitlab 8.13.0 • gitlab gitlab 8.13.1 • gitlab gitlab 8.13.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References