#VU49351 Input validation error in Gitlab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2020-26414 

 

#VU49351 Input validation error in Gitlab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2020-26414

Published: January 8, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU49351
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-26414
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Gitlab Community Edition
GitLab Enterprise Edition
Software vendor:
GitLab, Inc

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in regex when processing package names during package uploads. A remote user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a regular expression denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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