CVE-2023-6386 (GCVE-0-2023-6386)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-05 09:31 – Updated: 2025-02-05 14:45
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Summary
A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitLab CE/EE, affecting all versions from 15.11 prior to 16.6.7, 16.7 prior to 16.7.5 and 16.8 prior to 16.8.2 which allows an attacker to spike the GitLab instance resource usage resulting in service degradation.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/433147 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2261581 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 15.11 , < 16.6.7 (semver)
Affected: 16.7 , < 16.7.5 (semver)
Affected: 16.8 , < 16.8.2 (semver)
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Credits
Thanks `Anonymizer` for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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