SB2020031057 - Resource exhaustion in GitLab, Gitlab Community Edition



SB2020031057 - Resource exhaustion in GitLab, Gitlab Community Edition

Published: March 10, 2020 Updated: July 17, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2020031057
CSH 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 vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13003)

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 12.0.3. One of the parsers used by Gilab CI was vulnerable to a resource exhaustion attack. It allows Uncontrolled Resource Consumption.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.