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Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2023-6489: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 12, 2024
Added
Apr 22, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitLab CE/EE, versions 16.7.7 prior to 16.8.6, 16.9 prior to 16.9.4 and 16.10 prior to 16.10.2 which allows an attacker to spike the GitLab instance resources usage resulting in service degradation via chat integration feature.

Solution

gitlab-gitlab-upgrade-latest
Title
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