Resource exhaustion in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2019-15584
Published: December 20, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30508
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15584
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 authenticated user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
A denial of service exists in gitlab <v12.3.2, <v12.2.6, and <v12.1.10 that would let an attacker bypass input validation in markdown fields take down the affected page.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-15584
Install update from vendor's website.