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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-05-29 07:32

Modified

2025-05-20 10:02

Summary

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

Details

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.

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    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "gitlab",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/gitlab"
      },
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            },
            {
              "fixed": "16.10.6"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "16.11.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "16.11.3"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "17.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "17.0.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
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          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2023-6502"
  ],
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      "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:community:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "BIT-gitlab-2023-6502",
  "modified": "2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z",
  "published": "2024-05-29T07:32:46.972Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/433534"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://hackerone.com/reports/2263638"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6502"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab"
}

CVE-2023-6502 (GCVE-0-2023-6502)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-23 11:02 – Updated: 2024-10-03 06:23

Title

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

Summary

Severity ?

4.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE

CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Assigner

GitLab

References

URL

Tags

	https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/433534	issue-trackingpermissions-required
	https://hackerone.com/reports/2263638	technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	GitLab	GitLab	Affected: 0 , < 16.10.6 (semver) Affected: 16.11 , < 16.11.3 (semver) Affected: 17.0 , < 17.0.1 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab::::::::

Credits

Thanks `Anonymizer` for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2023-6502 (GCVE-0-2023-6502)

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