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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-13355

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.14. A path traversal is found in LFS Upload that allows attacker to overwrite certain specific paths on the server. Affected versions are: >=8.14, <13.3.9,>=13.4, <13.4.5,>=13.5, <13.5.2.

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CVE-2020-13355

core-osv · Original source

Published 19 Nov 2020, 00:15 UTC

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.14. A path traversal is found in LFS Upload that allows attacker to overwrite certain specific paths on the server. Affected versions are: >=8.14, <13.3.9,>=13.4, <13.4.5,>=13.5, <13.5.2.

osv:CVE-2020-13355
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-13355",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2020-13355",
    "summary": "An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.14. A path traversal is found in LFS Upload that allows attacker to overwrite certain specific paths on the server. Affected versions are: >=8.14, <13.3.9,>=13.4, <13.4.5,>=13.5, <13.5.2.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-13355",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      "aliases": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"
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      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:32.094508507Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2020/CVE-2020-13355.json",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/255886",
        "https://hackerone.com/reports/990800"
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433680,
  "published_at": "2020-11-19T00:15:11.98+00:00"
}