High
Security advisory
An authorization issue was discovered in Gitlab versions < 12.1.2, < 12.0.4, and < 11.11.6 that prevented owners and maintainer to delete epic comments.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-5472
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An authorization issue was discovered in Gitlab versions < 12.1.2, < 12.0.4, and < 11.11.6 that prevented owners and maintainer to delete epic comments.
osv:CVE-2019-5472
Complete source record
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"id": "8f737bc85e91415b4e773d7b2c2ef96dedac7c9ae1c035ce9bdfe5c909a43169",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-5472",
"method": "structured",
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"summary": "An authorization issue was discovered in Gitlab versions < 12.1.2, < 12.0.4, and < 11.11.6 that prevented owners and maintainer to delete epic comments.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-5472",
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"severity": "high",
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"modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:46.790959471Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://hackerone.com/reports/538101",
"https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/07/29/security-release-gitlab-12-dot-1-dot-2-released/",
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/11381"
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 429271,
"published_at": "2020-01-28T03:15:11.247+00:00"
}