CVE-2022-4131 (GCVE-0-2022-4131)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-12 00:00
Modified
2025-04-08 16:27
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
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 10.8 before 15.5.7, all versions starting from 15.6 before 15.6.4, all versions starting from 15.7 before 15.7.2. An attacker may cause Denial of Service on a GitLab instance by exploiting a regex issue in how the application parses user agents.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Version: >=10.8, <15.5.7
Version: >=15.6, <15.6.4
Version: >=15.7, <15.7.2
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