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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-12442

An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 11.7 through 11.11. The epic details page contained a lack of input validation and output encoding issue which resulted in a persistent XSS vulnerability on child epics.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:40 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-12442

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Mar 2020, 15:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 11.7 through 11.11. The epic details page contained a lack of input validation and output encoding issue which resulted in a persistent XSS vulnerability on child epics.

osv:CVE-2019-12442
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-12442",
  "method": "structured",
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    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-12442",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
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      ],
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:55.874806008Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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      ],
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    "security_relevant": true,
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430513,
  "published_at": "2020-03-10T15:15:14.637+00:00"
}