CVE-2023-3909mediumCWE-1333

CVE-2023-3909: medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

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No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 4.3epss 0.7%
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.3 before 16.3.6, all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.2, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.1. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible by adding a large string in timeout input in gitlab-ci.yml file.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
GitLab · GitLab
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