GitLab 8.4.x - 10.4.6, 10.5.x - 10.5.6, 10.6.x - 10.6.2 XSS Vulnerability
🗓️ 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitLab Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-08691) | 9 Apr 201800:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2018-9243 | 5 Apr 201814:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2018-9243 | 5 Apr 201814:00 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2018-9243 | 5 Apr 201814:00 | – | debiancve | |
| EUVD-2018-20837 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| CVE-2018-9243 | 5 Apr 201814:29 | – | nvd | |
| UBUNTU-CVE-2018-9243 | 5 Apr 201814:29 | – | osv | |
| Cross site scripting | 5 Apr 201814:29 | – | prion | |
| CVE-2018-9243 | 5 Apr 201814:29 | – | ubuntucve | |
| Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-9243 | 27 Aug 202500:00 | – | nessus |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| gitlab | www.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/42028 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:gitlab:gitlab";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.170072");
script_version("2025-08-29T05:38:41+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-08-29 05:38:41 +0000 (Fri, 29 Aug 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2022-03-28 13:44:07 +0000 (Mon, 28 Mar 2022)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-02-27 19:41:00 +0000 (Wed, 27 Feb 2019)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-9243");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("GitLab 8.4.x - 10.4.6, 10.5.x - 10.5.6, 10.6.x - 10.6.2 XSS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_gitlab_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("gitlab/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"GitLab is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"When renaming a file, the file header shows a diff between the
new and the old name on the /frans/test/merge_requests/3/diffs-page. When the diff is in the name
(file was moved) the names of the file is not sanitized properly, triggering javascript inside the
filename when accessing the /diffs-endpoint.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"GitLab version 8.4.x through 10.4.6, 10.5.x through 10.5.6
and 10.6.x through 10.6.2.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 10.4.7, 10.5.7, 10.6.3 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/42028");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "8.4.0", test_version2: "10.4.6")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "10.4.7", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "10.5.0", test_version2: "10.5.6")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "10.5.7", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "10.6.0", test_version2: "10.6.2")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "10.6.3", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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