High
Security advisory
An Improper Input Validation issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It was possible to use the profile name to inject a potentially malicious link into notification emails.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-6781
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An Improper Input Validation issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It was possible to use the profile name to inject a potentially malicious link into notification emails.
osv:CVE-2019-6781
Complete source record
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"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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