CVE-2019-15741

Summary

CVECVE-2019-15741
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-09-16 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-28 20:05:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in GitLab Omnibus 7.4 through 12.2.1. An unsafe interaction with logrotate could result in a privilege escalation

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gitlab Omnibus All All All All
Application Gitlab Omnibus All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GitLab Security Release: 12.2.3, 12.1.8, and 12.0.8 | GitLab MISC about.gitlab.com Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Full Disclosure: [AIT-SA-20190930-01] CVE-2019-15741: Privilege Escalation via Logrotate in Gitlab Omnibus FULLDISC seclists.org
Privilege escalation due to insecure use of logrotate (#4380) · Issues · GitLab.org / omnibus-gitlab · GitLab MISC gitlab.com Broken Link
GitLab Omnibus 12.2.1 Logrotate Privilege Escalation ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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