An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.11.8, 12 before 12.0.6, and 12.1 before 12.1.6.

published 2023-04-15 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-6039

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.6%; EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits: 0; none known

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.11.8, 12 before 12.0.6, and 12.1 before 12.1.6. Gitaly allows injection of command-line flags. This sometimes leads to privilege escalation or remote code execution.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

gitlab gitlab 11.11.8, 12.0.6, 12.1.6

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: Proof of concept is public
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 21 mo ago (2025-02-06)

Exploit prediction

1.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/issues/1801 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CNA	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Classification

Weakness

CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command

Technology feeds

GitLab rss critical rss

References

gitlab.com /gitlab-org/gitaly/issues/1801
exploit, issue-tracking, vendor-advisory
about.gitlab.com /releases/2019/08/12/critical-security-release-gitlab-12-dot-1-dot-6-released/
vendor-advisory
about.gitlab.com /blog/categories/releases/
release-notes
gitlab.com /gitlab-org/gitaly/issues/1802
broken-link

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-14944
NVD CVE-2019-14944

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Summary