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CVE-2016-9469 Detail

Description

Multiple versions of GitLab expose a dangerous method to any authenticated user that could lead to the deletion of all Issue and MergeRequest objects on a GitLab instance. For GitLab instances with publicly available projects this vulnerability could be exploited by an unauthenticated user. A fix was included in versions 8.14.3, 8.13.8, and 8.12.11, which were released on December 5th 2016 at 3:59 PST. The GitLab versions vulnerable to this are 8.13.0, 8.13.0-ee, 8.13.1, 8.13.1-ee, 8.13.2, 8.13.2-ee, 8.13.3, 8.13.3-ee, 8.13.4, 8.13.4-ee, 8.13.5, 8.13.5-ee, 8.13.6, 8.13.6-ee, 8.13.7, 8.14.0, 8.14.0-ee, 8.14.1, 8.14.2, and 8.14.2-ee.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/05/cve-2016-9469/ CVE, HackerOne Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/29ceb98b5162677601702704e89d845580372078 CVE, HackerOne Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/55196497301eea429913f9c4b1b37c42c2e358ce CVE, HackerOne Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/f325e4e734e5e486f3b02db176eb629124052b43 CVE, HackerOne Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25064 CVE, HackerOne Exploit  Vendor Advisory 
https://hackerone.com/reports/186194 CVE, HackerOne Exploit  Technical Description  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-749 Exposed Dangerous Method or Function HackerOne  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-9469
NVD Published Date:
03/27/2017
NVD Last Modified:
06/16/2026
Source:
HackerOne