CVE-2023-5825

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5825
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-5825.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-5825
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2023-11-06T10:30:38Z
Modified
2026-08-23T06:37:47Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in GitLab
Details

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.3.6, all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.2, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.1. A low-privileged attacker can point a CI/CD Component to an incorrect path and cause the server to exhaust all available memory through an infinite loop and cause Denial of Service.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "GitLab",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-835"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/5xxx/CVE-2023-5825.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:16.5.0:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:16.5.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "16.2.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "16.3.6"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "16.4.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "16.4.2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "16.5.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "16.5.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "CPE_STRING"
    ]
}

Affected versions

16.*
16.5.0
v16.*
v16.4.0-ee
v16.5.0-ee

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-5825.json"