Input validation error in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2019-6785
Published: September 9, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30769
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-6785
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It allows Denial of Service. Inputting an overly long string into a Markdown field could cause a denial of service.
Affected software
Gitlab Community Edition
How to mitigate CVE-2019-6785
Install update from vendor's website.
Gitlab Community Edition - update to 11.7.1