CVE-2019-6796: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 2 of 2). The user status field contains a lack of input validation and output encoding that results in a persistent XSS.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: before 11.5.8 (fixed in 11.5.8); from 11.6.0, up to and including 11.6.5; from 11.7.0, before 11.7.1 (fixed in 11.7.1)

Published 2019-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.