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CVE-2025-2937 (GCVE-0-2025-2937)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-13 17:26 – Updated: 2025-08-13 20:03
VLAI
Title
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.2 before 18.0.6, 18.1 before 18.1.4, and 18.2 before 18.2.2 that could have allowed authenticated users to create a denial of service condition by sending specially crafted markdown payloads to the Wiki feature.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-13 20:03 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/528995 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/3058879 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: 13.2 , < 18.0.6 (semver)
Affected: 18.1 , < 18.1.4 (semver)
Affected: 18.2 , < 18.2.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [yuki_osaki](https://hackerone.com/yuki_osaki) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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