CVE-2022-2908

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Oct 17, 2022
Updated: May 13, 2025
Reserved: Aug 19, 2022

Description

A potential DoS vulnerability was discovered in Gitlab CE/EE versions starting from 10.7 before 15.1.5, all versions starting from 15.2 before 15.2.3, all versions starting from 15.3 before 15.3.1 allowed an attacker to trigger high CPU usage via a special crafted input added in the Commit message field.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	>=10.7, <15.1.5Affected >=15.2, <15.2.3Affected >=15.3, <15.3.1Affected

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/363734
https://hackerone.com/reports/1584156
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-2908.json

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