Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gitlab  (opens in a new tab)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-RHEL8-GITLAB-5853506
  • published23 Aug 2023
  • disclosed2 Aug 2023

Introduced: 2 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-3364  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

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

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.14 before 16.0.8, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.3, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.2. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible via sending crafted payloads which use AutolinkFilter to the preview_markdown endpoint.