High
Security advisory
Missing permission check on fork relation creation in GitLab CE/EE 11.3 and later through 13.0.1 allows guest users to create a fork relation on restricted public projects via API
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13270
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Missing permission check on fork relation creation in GitLab CE/EE 11.3 and later through 13.0.1 allows guest users to create a fork relation on restricted public projects via API
osv:CVE-2020-13270
Complete source record
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