SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-9086

Added in GitLab 8.9, this feature allows a user to export and then re-import their projects as tape archive files (tar).

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 5.39%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (5.39%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.0
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
5.39% probability · 93th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-200
Affected
gitlab/gitlab
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%5%10%27 October 2026: 5.39%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 5.4% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.