CVE-2023-0632 (GCVE-0-2023-0632)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-01 23:36 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:06
VLAI?
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 15.2 before 16.0.8, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.3, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.2. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible by using crafted payloads to search Harbor Registry.
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-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/390148 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/1852677 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 15.2 , < 16.0.8 (semver)
Affected: 16.1.0 , < 16.1.3 (semver)
Affected: 16.2.0 , < 16.2.2 (semver)
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Credits
Thanks [joaxcar](https://hackerone.com/joaxcar) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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