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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-19496

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 10.x and 11.x before 11.3.11, 11.4.x before 11.4.8, and 11.5.x before 11.5.1. There is an incorrect access control vulnerability that permits a user with insufficient privileges to promote a project milestone to a group milestone.

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CVE-2018-19496
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1 Nov 2026, 06:50 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-19496

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Jul 2019, 15:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 10.x and 11.x before 11.3.11, 11.4.x before 11.4.8, and 11.5.x before 11.5.1. There is an incorrect access control vulnerability that permits a user with insufficient privileges to promote a project milestone to a group milestone.

osv:CVE-2018-19496
Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:53.765976315Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2019-07-10T15:15:12.057+00:00"
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