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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-19572

GitLab CE 8.17 and later and EE 8.3 and later have a symlink time-of-check-to-time-of-use race condition that would allow unauthorized access to files in the GitLab Pages chroot environment. This is fixed in versions 11.5.1, 11.4.8, and 11.3.11.

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CVE-2018-19572
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1 Nov 2026, 04:23 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-19572

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Jul 2019, 16:15 UTC

GitLab CE 8.17 and later and EE 8.3 and later have a symlink time-of-check-to-time-of-use race condition that would allow unauthorized access to files in the GitLab Pages chroot environment. This is fixed in versions 11.5.1, 11.4.8, and 11.3.11.

osv:CVE-2018-19572
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-19572",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "GitLab CE 8.17 and later and EE 8.3 and later have a symlink time-of-check-to-time-of-use race condition that would allow unauthorized access to files in the GitLab Pages chroot environment. This is fixed in versions 11.5.1, 11.4.8, and 11.3.11.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-19572",
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      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:50.776771699Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://about.gitlab.com/2018/11/28/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-5-dot-1-released/",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages/issues/98"
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429741,
  "published_at": "2019-07-10T16:15:10.727+00:00"
}