CVE-2023-3909
Published: 6 November 2023
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.3 before 16.3.6, all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.2, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.1. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible by adding a large string in timeout input in gitlab-ci.yml file.
Notes
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur |
GitLab isn't maintainable as a distro package, and was removed from Ubuntu because of this. We will not be fixing security issues in the gitlab package in Xenial. |
Priority
Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
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Base score | 6.5 |
Attack vector | Network |
Attack complexity | Low |
Privileges required | Low |
User interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | None |
Integrity impact | None |
Availability impact | High |
Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |