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CVE-2020-13349 (GCVE-0-2020-13349)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-17 18:22 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:18
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Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 8.12. A regular expression related to a file path resulted in the Advanced Search feature susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. Affected versions are >=8.12, <13.3.9,>=13.4, <13.4.5,>=13.5, <13.5.2.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • Uncontrolled resource consumption in GitLab
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab EE Affected: >=8.12
Affected: <13.3.9
Affected: >=13.4
Affected: <13.4.5
Affected: >=13.5
Affected: <13.5.2
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Credits
This vulnerability has been discovered internally by the GitLab team
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