UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9469

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9469
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9469.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9469
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:43:40Z
Published
2017-03-28T02:59:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T07:35:18.044801Z
Severity
  • 8.2 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Multiple versions of GitLab expose a dangerous method to any authenticated user that could lead to the deletion of all Issue and MergeRequest objects on a GitLab instance. For GitLab instances with publicly available projects this vulnerability could be exploited by an unauthenticated user. A fix was included in versions 8.14.3, 8.13.8, and 8.12.11, which were released on December 5th 2016 at 3:59 PST. The GitLab versions vulnerable to this are 8.13.0, 8.13.0-ee, 8.13.1, 8.13.1-ee, 8.13.2, 8.13.2-ee, 8.13.3, 8.13.3-ee, 8.13.4, 8.13.4-ee, 8.13.5, 8.13.5-ee, 8.13.6, 8.13.6-ee, 8.13.7, 8.14.0, 8.14.0-ee, 8.14.1, 8.14.2, and 8.14.2-ee.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / gitlab

Package

Name
gitlab
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/gitlab@8.5.8+dfsg-5?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.5.8+dfsg-5

Affected versions

8.*
8.4.3+dfsg-9
8.4.3+dfsg-12

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "gitlab",
            "binary_version": "8.5.8+dfsg-5"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9469.json"