CVE-2019-6784 (NVD)

2019-09-09

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It allows XSS (issue 1 of 2). Markdown fields contain a lack of input validation and output encoding when processing KaTeX that results in a persistent XSS.

Products Gitlab
Type Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/54416
https://about.gitlab.com/2019/01/31/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-7-dot-3-released/