Incorrect Regular Expression in Gitlab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2024-1963

 

Incorrect Regular Expression in Gitlab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2024-1963

Published: June 13, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU92082
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-2024-1963
CWE-ID: CWE-185
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: GitLab, Inc
Affected software:
Gitlab Community Edition
GitLab Enterprise Edition

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing regular expressions in Asana integration issue mapping when webhook is called. A remote user can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


How to mitigate CVE-2024-1963

Install update from vendor's website.

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