CVE-2017-17716
medium
CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.9
Description
GitLab 9.4.x before 9.4.2 does not support LDAP SSL certificate verification, but a verify_certificates LDAP option was mentioned in the 9.4 release announcement. This issue occurred because code was not merged. This is related to use of the omniauth-ldap library and the gitlab_omniauth-ldap gem.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://about.gitlab.com/2017/07/22/gitlab-9-4-released/#security---add-ldap-ssl-certificate-verification
- https://about.gitlab.com/2017/07/28/gitlab-9-dot-4-dot-2-released/
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/30420
- https://about.gitlab.com/2017/07/22/gitlab-9-4-released/#security---add-ldap-ssl-certificate-verification
- https://about.gitlab.com/2017/07/28/gitlab-9-dot-4-dot-2-released/
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/30420
CWEs
CWE-295
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.