{"id":"CVE-2018-17455","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-17455","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:02:20.873Z","title":"Attackers could obtain sensitive information about group names, avatars, LDAP settings, and descriptions via an insecure direct object reference to the \"merge request approvals\" feature.","description":"An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition before 11.1.7, 11.2.x before 11.2.4, and 11.3.x before 11.3.1. Attackers could obtain sensitive information about group names, avatars, LDAP settings, and descriptions via an insecure direct object reference to the \"merge request approvals\" feature.","published":"2023-04-15T23:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:45:53.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-639"],"affected":["gitlab/gitlab"],"epss":{"score":0.00621,"percentile":0.49541,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.62%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2018/10/01/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-3-dot-1-released/","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2018/10/01/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-3-dot-1-released/","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17455","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}