CVE-2023-3246 (GCVE-0-2023-3246)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-06 12:01 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:07
VLAI?
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE/CE affecting all versions starting before 16.3.6, all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.2, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.1 which allows an attackers to block Sidekiq job processor.
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-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/415371 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/2014157 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 10.3 , < 16.3.6 (semver)
Affected: 16.4.0 , < 16.4.2 (semver)
Affected: 16.5.0 , < 16.5.1 (semver)
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Credits
Thanks [zhutyra](https://hackerone.com/zhutyra) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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