CVE-2023-6386 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

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 none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gitlab	Gitlab

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References

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

History

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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.
Title		Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab
First Time appeared		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses		CWE-770
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab::::::::
Vendors & Products		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab
References		https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/433147 https://hackerone.com/reports/2261581
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2025-02-05T09:31:10.106Z

Updated: 2025-02-05T14:45:32.989Z

Reserved: 2023-11-29T17:01:03.346Z

Link: CVE-2023-6386

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-02-05T14:45:29.691Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-02-05T10:15:22.093

Modified: 2025-02-05T10:15:22.093

Link: CVE-2023-6386

Redhat

No data.

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