An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 9.3 before 16.0.8, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.3, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.2. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible via sending crafted payloads which use ProjectReferenceFilter to the preview_markdown endpoint.
{ "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "severity": "High" }