Resource exhaustion in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2019-15722
Published: September 16, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30753
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-2019-15722
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 8.15 through 12.2.1. Particular mathematical expressions in GitLab Markdown can exhaust client resources.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-15722
Install update from vendor's website.