CVE-2023-5825 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in GitLab

2023-11-0610:30:38

CWE-400

GitLab

www.cve.org

cve-2023-5825

uncontrolled resource consumption

gitlab

incorrect path

ci/cd component

denial of service

CVSS3

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

13.3%

JSON

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.2 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 low-privileged attacker can point a CI/CD Component to an incorrect path and cause the server to exhaust all available memory through an infinite loop and cause Denial of Service.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "product": "GitLab",
    "repo": "git://[email protected]:gitlab-org/gitlab.git",
    "vendor": "GitLab",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "16.3.6",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "16.2",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "lessThan": "16.4.2",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "16.4",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "lessThan": "16.5.1",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "16.5",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ]
  }
]