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CVE-2023-6736

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab



AssignerGitLab
Reserved2023-12-12
Published2024-02-07
Updated2024-10-03

Description

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.



MEDIUM: 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Product status

Default status
unaffected

11.3 before 16.7.6
affected

16.8 before 16.8.3
affected

16.9 before 16.9.1
affected

Credits

Thanks [joaxcar](https://hackerone.com/joaxcar) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program finder

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/435036 (GitLab Issue #435036) issue-tracking

https://hackerone.com/reports/2269023 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2269023) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org CVE-2023-6736

nvd.nist.gov CVE-2023-6736

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