CVE-2022-3478 (GCVE-0-2022-3478)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-24 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-02 15:05
VLAI?
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 12.8 before 15.4.6, all versions starting from 15.5 before 15.5.5, all versions starting from 15.6 before 15.6.1. It was possible to trigger a DoS attack by uploading a malicious nuget package.
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
GitLab GitLab Affected: >=12.8, <15.4.6
Affected: >=15.5, <15.5.5
Affected: >=15.6, <15.6.1
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Credits
Thanks [luryus](https://hackerone.com/luryus) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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