CVE-2023-6736 (GCVE-0-2023-6736)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-07 22:02 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:11
VLAI?
Title
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 11.3 before 16.7.6, all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.3, all versions starting from 16.9 before 16.9.1. It was possible for an attacker to cause a client-side denial of service using malicious crafted content in the CODEOWNERS file.
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/435036 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/2269023 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 11.3 , < 16.7.6 (semver)
Affected: 16.8 , < 16.8.3 (semver)
Affected: 16.9 , < 16.9.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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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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