Medium [CVE-2023-6159] Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab
This medium-severity GitLab advisory covers CVE-2023-6159 affecting GitLab.
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Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.7 prior to 16.6.6, 16.7 prior to 16.7.4, and 16.8 prior to 16.8.1 It was possible for an attacker to trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service via a `Cargo.toml` containing maliciously crafted input.
- GitLab 12.7 before 16.6.6
- GitLab 16.7 before 16.7.4
- GitLab 16.8 before 16.8.1
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- 16.6.6
- 16.7.4
- 16.8.1
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 16.6.6, 16.7.4, 16.8.1. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
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