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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-12431

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 8.13 through 11.11. Restricted users could access the metadata of private milestones through the Search API. It has Improper Access Control.

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CVE-2019-12431
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1 Nov 2026, 08:00 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-12431

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Mar 2020, 14:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 8.13 through 11.11. Restricted users could access the metadata of private milestones through the Search API. It has Improper Access Control.

osv:CVE-2019-12431
Complete source record
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  "id": "a6d474c8dd0fe1ed78c92c17de7fa74523804db5d83a82738ff9457c41c01b42",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-12431",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-12431",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 8.13 through 11.11. Restricted users could access the metadata of private milestones through the Search API. It has Improper Access Control.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-12431",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-12431",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-12431"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "294482f38388542b43b908dcb427759544a7486f"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "deb6f84e91fe4d21daa6b5558c517254ea2668a3"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "8.13.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "11.11.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "8.13.0"
                      },
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                        "last_affected": "11.11.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-12431.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:22.519392128Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/",
        "https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/06/03/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-11-dot-1-released/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-12431",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 439795,
  "published_at": "2020-03-10T14:15:11.753+00:00"
}