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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2023-6736 EUVD-2023-58949GHSA-4fr5-6ccq-75w2

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

Published Feb 7, 2024 · Updated Apr 24, 2026 · Assigned by GitLab

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 11.3 before 16.7.6, all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.3, all versions starting from 16.9 before 16.9.1. It was possible for an attacker to cause a client-side denial of service using malicious crafted content in the CODEOWNERS file.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
GitLab GitLab 11.3 – < 16.7.6, 16.8 – < 16.8.3, 16.9 – < 16.9.1 16.7.6

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS gitlab No fix yet —

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