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CVE-2023-6159

Published: Jan 26, 2024

Modified: May 6, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

GitLab

GitLab

affected
12.7 - < 16.6.6
affected
16.7 - < 16.7.4
affected
16.8 - < 16.8.1

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-1333

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

GitLab Issue #431924
issue-tracking
permissions-required
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2251278
technical-description
exploit
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