CVE-2023-2198

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Jun 7, 2023
Updated: Jan 7, 2025
Reserved: Apr 20, 2023

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.7 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible via sending crafted payloads to the preview_markdown endpoint.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	>=8.7, <15.10.8Affected >=15.11, <15.11.7Affected >=16.0, <16.0.2Affected

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/408273
https://hackerone.com/reports/1947187
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-2198.json

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