CVE-2019-14944

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.6%

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.11.8, 12 before 12.0.6, and 12.1 before 12.1.6. Gitaly allows injection of command-line flags. This sometimes leads to privilege escalation or remote code execution.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-77
Published: 2023-04-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gitlab:gitlab

References

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/08/12/critical-security-release-gitlab-12-dot-1-dot-6-released/
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/issues/1801
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/issues/1802
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/

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