CVE-2017-0918 Path traversal in GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions

What is CVE-2017-0918?

CVE-2017-0918 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 21 Mar 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Gitlab Community Edition version 10.3 is vulnerable to a path traversal issue in the GitLab CI runner component resulting in remote code execution.

Weakness: CWE-22, CWE-23

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-0918?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Gitlab Gitlab.

How do I fix CVE-2017-0918?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2017-0918 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-0918 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-cv6r-jfw8-2rmq, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0918.