An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 11.3 before 16.7.6, all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.3, all versions starting from 16.9 before 16.9.1. It was possible for an attacker to cause a client-side denial of service using malicious crafted content in the CODEOWNERS file.
Published 2024-02-07 22:15:09
Updated 2024-10-08 19:00:49
Source GitLab Inc.
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Denial of service

Products affected by CVE-2023-6736

  • Gitlab » Gitlab » Enterprise Edition
    Versions from including (>=) 11.3.0 and before (<) 16.7.6
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
  • Gitlab » Gitlab » Enterprise Edition
    Versions from including (>=) 16.8.0 and before (<) 16.8.3
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
  • Gitlab » Gitlab » Version: 16.9.0 Enterprise Edition
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:16.9.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-6736

0.06%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 28 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2023-6736

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
6.5
MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
2.8
3.6
GitLab Inc. 2024-02-07
6.5
MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
2.8
3.6
NIST 2024-03-04

CWE ids for CVE-2023-6736

  • The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
    Assigned by:
    • cve@gitlab.com (Secondary)
    • nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
  • The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.
    Assigned by:
    • cve@gitlab.com (Secondary)
    • nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

References for CVE-2023-6736

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