CVE-2023-0632

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Aug 1, 2023
Updated: Nov 20, 2025
Reserved: Feb 1, 2023

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 15.2 before 16.0.8, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.3, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.2. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible by using crafted payloads to search Harbor Registry.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	15.2 to before 16.0.8Affected 16.1.0 to before 16.1.3Affected 16.2.0 to before 16.2.2Affected

References

GitLab Issue #390148issue-tracking
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #1852677technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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