CVE-2023-0121 (GCVE-0-2023-0121)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-01-07 17:00
VLAI
Title
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab
Summary
A denial of service issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.2.4 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2 which allows an attacker to cause high resource consumption using malicious test report artifacts.
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: >=13.2.4, <15.10.8
Affected: >=15.11, <15.11.7
Affected: >=16.0, <16.0.2
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Credits
Thanks [luryus](https://hackerone.com/luryus) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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