SB2019051519 - Resource exhaustion in GitLab, Gitlab Community Edition



SB2019051519 - Resource exhaustion in GitLab, Gitlab Community Edition

Published: May 15, 2019 Updated: July 17, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2019051519
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10640)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.7.10, 11.8.x before 11.8.6, and 11.9.x before 11.9.4. A regex input validation issue for the .gitlab-ci.yml refs value allows Uncontrolled Resource Consumption.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.