A potential DOS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.1 prior to 14.7.7, 14.8.0 prior to 14.8.5, and 14.9.0 prior to 14.9.2. The api to update an asset as a link from a release had a regex check which caused exponential number of backtracks for certain user supplied values resulting in high CPU usage.
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"severity": "Medium"
}