Resource exhaustion in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2019-10640
Published: May 15, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31072
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-2019-10640
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 11.7.10, 11.8.x before 11.8.6, and 11.9.x before 11.9.4. A regex input validation issue for the .gitlab-ci.yml refs value allows Uncontrolled Resource Consumption.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-10640
Install update from vendor's website.