cve-2023-6159
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-26 02:02
Modified
2024-09-18 04:08
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.7 prior to 16.6.6, 16.7 prior to 16.7.4, and 16.8 prior to 16.8.1 It was possible for an attacker to trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service via a `Cargo.toml` containing maliciously crafted input.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/01/25/critical-security-release-gitlab-16-8-1-released/Vendor Advisory
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/431924Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/2251278Permissions Required
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/01/25/critical-security-release-gitlab-16-8-1-released/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/431924Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://hackerone.com/reports/2251278Permissions Required
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GitLab GitLab Version: 12.7   ≤
Version: 16.7   ≤
Version: 16.8   ≤
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