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GHSA-997P-PQQ2-W5F5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-04-12 03:30 – Updated: 2024-04-12 03:30

Details

A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitLab CE/EE, versions 16.7.7 prior to 16.8.6, 16.9 prior to 16.9.4 and 16.10 prior to 16.10.2 which allows an attacker to spike the GitLab instance resources usage resulting in service degradation via chat integration feature.

Severity ?

4.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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CVE-2023-6489 (GCVE-0-2023-6489)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-12 00:53 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:11

Summary

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-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Assigner

GitLab

References

URL

Tags

	https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/433520	issue-trackingpermissions-required
	https://hackerone.com/reports/2262450	technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	GitLab	GitLab	Affected: 16.7.7 , < 16.8.6 (semver) Affected: 16.9 , < 16.9.4 (semver) Affected: 16.10 , < 16.10.2 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab::::::::

Credits

Thanks `Anonymizer` for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program

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Sightings

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-997P-PQQ2-W5F5

CVE-2023-6489 (GCVE-0-2023-6489)

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