CVE-2023-5825 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in GitLab

2023-11-0610:30:38

CWE-400

GitLab

github.com

cve-2023-5825

gitlab

uncontrolled resource consumption

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

6.4

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

poc

Automatable

Technical Impact

partial

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.

ADP Affected

[
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:16.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "gitlab",
    "product": "gitlab",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "16.2",
        "lessThan": "16.3.6",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  },
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:16.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "gitlab",
    "product": "gitlab",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "16.4",
        "lessThan": "16.4.2",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  },
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:16.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "gitlab",
    "product": "gitlab",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "16.5",
        "lessThan": "16.5.1",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]