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Security advisory
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) 5.1 through 12.6.1. It has Incorrect Access Control.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-5197
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 07:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) 5.1 through 12.6.1. It has Incorrect Access Control.
osv:CVE-2020-5197
Complete source record
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"id": "7f5e0ecd50d1a269a81724a97bbb93b84323cef3aee9952c5281ccfe7e894c42",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-5197",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2020-5197",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) 5.1 through 12.6.1. It has Incorrect Access Control.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-5197",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
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"aliases": [
"BIT-gitlab-2020-5197",
"CVE-2020-5197"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
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"type": "GIT",
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"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
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"versions": [
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"v12.6.0-ee",
"v12.6.0-rc42-ee",
"11-10-0cfa69752d8-74ffd66ae-ee",
"11-10-0cfa69752d8-0d9531c80-ee",
"11-10-119f9509d50-6d7537235-ee",
"v7.3.0-ee",
"v7.3.0.rc1-ee",
"v7.2.0.rc5-ee",
"v7.2.0.rc4-ee",
"v7.2.0.rc3-ee",
"v7.2.0.rc2-ee",
"v7.2.0.rc1-ee",
"v7.1.0-ee",
"v7.1.0.rc1-ee",
"v7.0.0-ee",
"v6.8.0-ee",
"v6.7.0-ee",
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"v6.6.0-ee",
"v6.5.0-ee",
"v6.4.0-ee",
"v6.3.1-ee",
"v6.3.0-ee",
"v6.1.0-ee",
"v6.0.0-ee",
"v6.0.0-ee.rc1",
"v6.0.0-ee.beta",
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:46.574565728Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/",
"https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/01/02/security-release-gitlab-12-6-2-released/"
],
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},
"related_cves": [
{
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"evidence": "/id"
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],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 439490,
"published_at": "2020-01-13T20:15:13.983+00:00"
}