vulnerability

Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2022-1100: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 4, 2022
Added
Apr 22, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A potential DOS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.1 prior to 14.7.7, 14.8.0 prior to 14.8.5, and 14.9.0 prior to 14.9.2. The api to update an asset as a link from a release had a regex check which caused exponential number of backtracks for certain user supplied values resulting in high CPU usage.

Solution

gitlab-gitlab-upgrade-latest
Title
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