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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-13001

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:26 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-13001

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Mar 2020, 15:15 UTC

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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  "id": "2fe225a2dec3854bbff2fbf4d460830cdc3e0d3bd5c4d236fd877a1d2c2a90a8",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-13001",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-13001",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-13001",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-13001",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-13001"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "2f3536bdda88ae962d4f67ced68af6efd82254f1"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "ef76b54fc1e333a6d4b5cdd791bf64a6100e31e5"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "11.9.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "12.0.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "11.9.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "12.0.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-13001.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:24.528048520Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/",
        "https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/07/03/security-release-gitlab-12-dot-0-dot-3-released/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-13001",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 434722,
  "published_at": "2020-03-10T15:15:15.557+00:00"
}