Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-19572
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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