CVE-2023-6386

Feb. 5, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

6.5
Medium

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitLab CE/EE, affecting all versions from 15.11 prior to 16.6.7, 16.7 prior to 16.7.5 and 16.8 prior to 16.8.2 which allows an attacker to spike the GitLab instance resource usage resulting in service degradation.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
GitLab CE/EE
  • 15.11 - 16.6.7
  • 16.7 - 16.7.5
  • 16.8 - 16.8.2

Weaknesses

CWE-770
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/433147
https://hackerone.com/reports/2261581

Tags

CWE-770
cve@gitlab.com
2025-02-05
CVE-2023-6386

CVSS Score

6.5 / 10

CVSS Data

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
    • View Vector String

    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Date

  • Published: Feb. 5, 2025, 10:15 a.m.
  • Last Modified: Feb. 5, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

cve@gitlab.com

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