Resource exhaustion in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2019-10113
Published: May 16, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31066
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-2019-10113
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 11.7.8, 11.8.x before 11.8.4, and 11.9.x before 11.9.2. Making concurrent GET /api/v4/projects/<id>/languages requests may allow Uncontrolled Resource Consumption.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-10113
Install update from vendor's website.