Resource exhaustion in Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2019-15593
Published: November 22, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU35042
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-2019-15593
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.
GitLab 12.2.3 contains a security vulnerability that allows a user to affect the availability of the service through a Denial of Service attack in Issue Comments.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-15593
Install update from vendor's website.