CVE-2023-6159

See a problem?
Please try reporting it to the source first.
Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6159
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-6159.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-6159
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2024-01-26T02:02:29.909Z
Modified
2025-12-05T03:58:39.924323Z
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
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab
Details

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.7 prior to 16.6.6, 16.7 prior to 16.7.4, and 16.8 prior to 16.8.1 It was possible for an attacker to trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service via a Cargo.toml containing maliciously crafted input.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "GitLab",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/6xxx/CVE-2023-6159.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
Events
Introduced
c6ca82f7978161022addd02f0528cf4b93e96d01
Fixed
7da037032f0d42a455bbc7624c23bf64e637fb5e
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "12.7"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "16.6.6"
        }
    ]
}
Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
Events
Introduced
9e7d34f7ff11405ece06ec398b66965d153cee6f
Fixed
bb0e47b487a5af315a14e4060c5297c70b3d6f13
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "16.7"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "16.7.4"
        }
    ]
}
Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
Events
Introduced
1e912d57d5a8f1135f4d41e25469069790134d41
Fixed
1242b44772043e8c0a7eb4dd7be2d7e6aa5ce029
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "16.8"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "16.8.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v16.*

v16.7.0-ee
v16.7.2-ee
v16.7.3-ee
v16.8.0-ee