VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-8778

medium
Published 2017-05-04 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.1

Description

GitLab before 8.14.9, 8.15.x before 8.15.6, and 8.16.x before 8.16.5 has XSS via a SCRIPT element in an issue attachment or avatar that is an SVG document.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
71%
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 with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gitlabgitlab{"endIncluding":"8.14.9"}
gitlabgitlab8.15.0
gitlabgitlab8.15.1
gitlabgitlab8.15.2
gitlabgitlab8.15.3
gitlabgitlab8.15.4
gitlabgitlab8.15.5
gitlabgitlab8.16.0
gitlabgitlab8.16.1
gitlabgitlab8.16.2
gitlabgitlab8.16.3
gitlabgitlab8.16.4

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.