CVE-2023-0921

MEDIUM4.3EPSS 21.5%

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

Published: 3/6/2024Modified: 5/20/2025

Also known as:BIT-gitlab-2023-0921

Description

A lack of length validation in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 8.3 before 15.10.8, 15.11 before 15.11.7, and 16.0 before 16.0.2 allows an authenticated attacker to create a large Issue description via GraphQL which, when repeatedly requested, saturates CPU usage.

Affected packages (1)

Bitnami/gitlab>= 8.3.0, < 15.10.8, >= 15.11.0, < 15.11.7, >= 16.0.0, < 16.0.2

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References (4)

WEBhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-0921.json
WEBhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/392433
WEBhttps://hackerone.com/reports/1869839
WEBhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0921