Name: CVE-2022-2908: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2022-2908, CWE-1333, CVSS 4.3, EPSS 0.01193

A 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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 4.3
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Freebsd	—	Upgrade gitlab-ce	Nov 4, 2022	Aug 30, 2022
Gitlab Gitlab	—	Upgrade Gitlab to the latest version	Apr 22, 2025	Oct 17, 2022

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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