Riskcovery

CVE-2023-0921

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Jun 6, 2023
Updated
Jan 7, 2025
Reserved
Feb 20, 2023

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Description

A lack of length validation in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 8.3 before 15.10.8, 15.11 before 15.11.7, and 16.0 before 16.0.2 allows an authenticated attacker to create a large Issue description via GraphQL which, when repeatedly requested, saturates CPU usage.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LGitLab

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

ProductVersions
GitLabGitLab
  • >=8.3, <15.10.8Affected
  • >=15.11, <15.11.7Affected
  • >=16.0, <16.0.2Affected

References

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