An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 10.3 before 15.11.10, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.6, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.1. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible via sending crafted payloads to the preview_markdown endpoint.
{
"severity": "High",
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
]
}