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CVE-2023-6489

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 16.8.6, 16.9.4, 16.10.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitLab CE/EE, versions 16.7.7 prior to 16.8.6, 16.9 prior to 16.9.4 and 16.10 prior to 16.10.2 which allows an attacker to spike the GitLab instance resources usage resulting in service degradation via chat integration feature.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • GitLab GitLab

    From 16.7.7 · fixed in 16.8.6; From 16.9 · fixed in 16.9.4; From 16.10 · fixed in 16.10.2

References 2

gitlab.com

hackerone.com