CVE-2023-2198 — Regex Denial of Service in Gitlab

CWE-1333 — Regex Denial of Service5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.8%
top 25.99%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
GitlabDebian GitlabGitlab CE
Timeline
PublishedJun 7

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.7 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible via sending crafted payloads to the preview_markdown endpoint.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶NVDgitlab/gitlab8.7.0 — 15.10.8+2
▶debiandebian/gitlab< gitlab 15.10.8+ds1-2 (sid)
▶CVEListV5gitlab/gitlab>=15.11, <15.11.7, >=16.0, <16.0.2, >=8.7, <15.10.8+2
▶gitlabgitlab/gitlab

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-2p9w-5q3p-g7cv: An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8↗2023-06-07
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OSV
CVE-2023-2198: An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8↗2023-06-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

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GitLab
CVE-2023-2198: An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.7 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7,↗2023-06-07
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Debian
CVE-2023-2198: gitlab - An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting fro...↗2023
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