Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gitlab  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-GITLAB-5702024
  • published12 Jun 2023
  • disclosed7 Jun 2023

Introduced: 7 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-2198  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gitlab package and not the gitlab package as distributed by Debian.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.7 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible via sending crafted payloads to the preview_markdown endpoint.