Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.9 and later through 12.0.2. GitLab Snippets were vulnerable to an authorization issue that allowed unauthorized users to add comments to a private snippet. It allows authentication bypass.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-13001
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.9 and later through 12.0.2. GitLab Snippets were vulnerable to an authorization issue that allowed unauthorized users to add comments to a private snippet. It allows authentication bypass.
osv:CVE-2019-13001
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:24.528048520Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/07/03/security-release-gitlab-12-dot-0-dot-3-released/"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-03-10T15:15:15.557+00:00"
}