CVE-2023-6688 — Regex Denial of Service in Gitlab

CWE-1333 — Regex Denial of ServiceCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption5 documents5 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 90.83%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
GitlabDebian GitlabGitlab CE
Timeline
PublishedMay 14

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶CVEListV5gitlab/gitlab16.11 — 16.11.2
▶NVDgitlab/gitlab16.11.0 — 16.11.2
▶debiandebian/gitlab< gitlab 17.3.5-2 (sid)
▶gitlabgitlab/gitlab

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
CVE-2023-6688: An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16↗2024-05-14
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GHSA
GHSA-h453-7rrx-q6j5: An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16↗2024-05-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

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GitLab
CVE-2023-6688: 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 Goog↗2024-05-14
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Debian
CVE-2023-6688: gitlab - An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting fro...↗2023
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