CVE-2023-6688 (GCVE-0-2023-6688)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-09 01:38 – Updated: 2024-10-03 06:23
VLAI?
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.11 prior to 16.11.2. A problem with the processing logic for Google Chat Messages integration may lead to a regular expression DoS attack on the server.
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/434854 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2270362 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 16.11 , < 16.11.2 (semver)
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Credits
Thanks to `Anonymizer` for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program.
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