CVE-2023-6736
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.06%
Description
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 11.3 before 16.7.6, all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.3, all versions starting from 16.9 before 16.9.1. It was possible for an attacker to cause a client-side denial of service using malicious crafted content in the CODEOWNERS file.
How to fix CVE-2023-6736
To remediate CVE-2023-6736, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 16.7.6 or later
Is CVE-2023-6736 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 11.3.0, < 16.7.6, >= 16.8.0, < 16.8.3, >= 16.9.0, < 16.9.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |