CVE-2023-6502

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: May 23, 2024
Updated: Oct 3, 2024
Reserved: Dec 4, 2023

Description

A Denial of Service (DoS) condition has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 16.10.6, version 16.11 before 16.11.3, and 17.0 before 17.0.1. It is possible for an attacker to cause a denial of service using a crafted wiki page.

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	before 16.10.6Affected 16.11 to before 16.11.3Affected 17.0 to before 17.0.1Affected

References

GitLab Issue #433534issue-trackingpermissions-required
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2263638technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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