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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-18642

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.2.7, 11.3.x before 11.3.8, and 11.4.x before 11.4.3. It has XSS.

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CVE-2018-18642
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1 Nov 2026, 05:05 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-18642

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 Dec 2018, 23:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.2.7, 11.3.x before 11.3.8, and 11.4.x before 11.4.3. It has XSS.

osv:CVE-2018-18642
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-18642",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-18642",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.2.7, 11.3.x before 11.3.8, and 11.4.x before 11.4.3. It has XSS.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-18642",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-18642",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-18642"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
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                },
                {
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                },
                {
                  "introduced": "1bbe39452664021af90851aef8527ce5e850343e"
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                  {
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                    ],
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                  },
                  {
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                      }
                    ],
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                  },
                  {
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                        "fixed": "11.4.3"
                      }
                    ],
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                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v11.4.2-ee",
            "v11.4.1-ee",
            "v11.4.0-ee"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:31:07.121368167Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/29/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-4-dot-3-released/",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/52551"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-18642",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431163,
  "published_at": "2018-12-04T23:29:00.507+00:00"
}