UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6795

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-6795
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6795.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6795
Upstream
Published
2019-09-09T20:15:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:47:29Z
Severity
  • 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

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 has Insufficient Visual Distinction of Homoglyphs Presented to a User. IDN homographs and RTLO characters are rendered to unicode, which could be used for social engineering.

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

Affected versions

8.*
8.4.3+dfsg-9
8.4.3+dfsg-12
8.5.8+dfsg-5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "gitlab",
            "binary_version": "8.5.8+dfsg-5"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6795.json"