CVE-2016-9469

HIGH 8.2CVE-2016-9469 · Published 28/03/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-9469 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.2) vulnerability affecting gitlab (gitlab).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.4%, higher than 84.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gitlab gitlab	`= 8.13.0= 8.13.1= 8.13.2= 8.13.3= 8.13.4= 8.13.5= 8.13.6= 8.13.7= 8.14.0= 8.14.1= 8.14.2`	No fix yet

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.

References

about.gitlab.com/2016/12/05/cve-2016-9469 · Patch
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/29ceb98b5162677601702704e89d845580372078 · Patch
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/55196497301eea429913f9c4b1b37c42c2e358ce · Patch
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/f325e4e734e5e486f3b02db176eb629124052b43 · Patch
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25064 · Exploit
hackerone.com/reports/186194 · Exploit

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

gitlab

= 8.13.0= 8.13.1= 8.13.2= 8.13.3= 8.13.4= 8.13.5= 8.13.6= 8.13.7= 8.14.0= 8.14.1= 8.14.2

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