CVE-2023-3917 (GCVE-0-2023-3917)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-29 06:02 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:08
VLAI?
Summary
Denial of Service in pipelines affecting all versions of Gitlab EE and CE prior to 16.2.8, 16.3 prior to 16.3.5, and 16.4 prior to 16.4.1 allows attacker to cause pipelines to fail.
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-1287 - Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/417896 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/2055158 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 0 , < 16.2.8 (semver)
Affected: 16.3 , < 16.3.5 (semver)
Affected: 16.4 , < 16.4.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [js_noob](https://hackerone.com/js_noob) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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