Resource exhaustion in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2019-13003
Published: March 10, 2020 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30336
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13003
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GitLab, Inc
Affected software:
Gitlab Community Edition
Gitlab Community Edition
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-13003
Install update from vendor's website.