CVE-2023-6159
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-26 02:02
Modified
2024-09-18 04:08
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/01/25/critical-security-release-gitlab-16-8-1-released/Vendor Advisory
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/431924Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/2251278Permissions Required
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