{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9469","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8.14.0-ee, 8.14.1, 8.14.2, and 8.14.2-ee.","modified":"2025-07-16T07:35:18.044801Z","published":"2017-03-28T02:59:00Z","withdrawn":"2025-07-18T16:43:40Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-9469"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9469"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/05/cve-2016-9469/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25064"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9469"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"gitlab","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/gitlab@8.5.8+dfsg-5?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.5.8+dfsg-5"}]}],"versions":["8.4.3+dfsg-9","8.4.3+dfsg-12"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"8.5.8+dfsg-5","binary_name":"gitlab"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9469.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}