High
Security advisory
An authentication issue was discovered in GitLab that allowed a bypass of email verification. This was addressed in GitLab 12.1.2 and 12.0.4.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-5473
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An authentication issue was discovered in GitLab that allowed a bypass of email verification. This was addressed in GitLab 12.1.2 and 12.0.4.
osv:CVE-2019-5473
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-5473",
"method": "structured",
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}
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"modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:29.112080129Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/11643",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/565883"
],
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 429718,
"published_at": "2019-09-09T18:15:10.747+00:00"
}