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

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

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

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.5%

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

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