vulnerability

Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2023-3909: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 6, 2023
Added
Apr 22, 2025
Modified
Sep 18, 2025

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.3 before 16.3.6, all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.2, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.1. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible by adding a large string in timeout input in gitlab-ci.yml file.

Solution

gitlab-gitlab-upgrade-latest
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