CVE-2022-2908

Summary

CVECVE-2022-2908
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-10-17 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-08 14:22:00 UTC
DescriptionA potential DoS vulnerability was discovered in Gitlab CE/EE versions starting from 10.7 before 15.1.5, all versions starting from 15.2 before 15.2.3, all versions starting from 15.3 before 15.3.1 allowed an attacker to trigger high CPU usage via a special crafted input added in the Commit message field.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-1333

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gitlab Gitlab All All All All
Application Gitlab Gitlab All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HackerOne MISC hackerone.com
2022/CVE-2022-2908.json · master · GitLab.org / cves · GitLab CONFIRM gitlab.com
Regex backtracking vulnerability with `commit_trailers_filter.rb` allows an attacker to exploit ReDoS through the `Commit message` field (#363734) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab · GitLab MISC gitlab.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Thanks [ryhmnlfj](https://hackerone.com/ryhmnlfj) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 379228 GitLab CE/EE Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
  • 379231 GitLab Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (gitlab- 15.3.2, 15.2.4 and 15.1.6)
  • 690928 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for gitlab (e6b994e2-2891-11ed-9be7-454b1dd82c64)

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