CVE-2023-2199 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.0 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible via sending crafted payloads to the preview_markdown endpoint.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gitlab	Gitlab

Configuration 1 [-]

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No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-2199.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/408272
https://hackerone.com/reports/1943819

History

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2023-06-07T00:00:00

Updated: 2025-01-07T16:45:38.544Z

Reserved: 2023-04-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2023-2199

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:12:20.665Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-06-07T17:15:10.207

Modified: 2025-01-07T17:15:14.397

Link: CVE-2023-2199

Redhat

No data.

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