CVE-2022-2931 (GCVE-0-2022-2931)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-17 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-13 16:25
VLAI?
Summary
A potential DOS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 15.1.6, all versions starting from 15.2 before 15.2.4, all versions starting from 15.3 before 15.3.2. Malformed content added to the issue description could have been used to trigger high CPU usage.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Uncontrolled resource consumption in GitLab
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: <15.1.6
Affected: >=15.2, <15.2.4
Affected: >=15.3, <15.3.2
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Credits
Thanks legit-security(https://hackerone.com/legit-security) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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