CVE-2023-6736

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6736
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-6736.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-6736
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2024-02-07T22:02:30.947Z
Modified
2025-11-20T20:33:05.492888Z
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 EE affecting all versions starting from 11.3 before 16.7.6, all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.3, all versions starting from 16.9 before 16.9.1. It was possible for an attacker to cause a client-side denial of service using malicious crafted content in the CODEOWNERS file.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1333"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
Events
Introduced
1bbe39452664021af90851aef8527ce5e850343e
Fixed
c8f3448a2f0cfb3c812fc4619e0f16bc3feb133b
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "11.3"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "16.7.6"
        }
    ]
}
Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
Events
Introduced
1e912d57d5a8f1135f4d41e25469069790134d41
Fixed
39213e8fab4a70aa7cf64bb1c75012bb11fd7b15
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "16.8"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "16.8.3"
        }
    ]
}
Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
Events
Introduced
76326ae8b898b38c8217ad037ed7122be00e62f0
Fixed
cc62007c12dc634c7442a9b1dc94508e50e5dba5
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "16.9"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "16.9.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other

11-10-0cfa69752d8-0d9531c80-ee
11-10-0cfa69752d8-74ffd66ae-ee
11-10-119f9509d50-6d7537235-ee

v11.*

v11.3.0.pre

v16.*

v16.7.0-ee
v16.7.0-rc42-ee
v16.7.0-rc43-ee
v16.7.0-rc44-ee
v16.7.2-ee
v16.7.3-ee
v16.7.4-ee
v16.7.5-ee
v16.8.0-ee
v16.8.1-ee
v16.8.2-ee
v16.9.0-ee
v16.9.0-rc44-ee

v6.*

v6.0.0-ee
v6.0.0-ee.beta
v6.0.0-ee.rc1
v6.1.0-ee
v6.2.1
v6.2.2
v6.3.0-ee
v6.3.1-ee
v6.4.0-ee
v6.4.1
v6.4.2
v6.4.3
v6.5.0-ee
v6.5.1
v6.6.0-ee
v6.6.1
v6.6.2
v6.7.0-ee
v6.7.0.rc1-ee
v6.7.1
v6.7.2
v6.8.0-ee
v6.8.1

v7.*

v7.0.0-ee
v7.1.0-ee
v7.1.0.rc1-ee
v7.2.0.rc1-ee
v7.2.0.rc2-ee
v7.2.0.rc3-ee
v7.2.0.rc4-ee
v7.2.0.rc5-ee
v7.3.0-ee
v7.3.0.rc1-ee
v7.4.0-ee
v7.4.1-ee
v7.4.2-ee
v7.4.3-ee
v7.4.4-ee

v8.*

v8.11.0
v8.11.0-ee
v8.11.0-rc1
v8.11.0-rc1-ee
v8.11.0-rc2
v8.11.0-rc2-ee
v8.11.0-rc3
v8.11.0-rc3-ee
v8.11.0-rc4
v8.11.0-rc4-ee
v8.11.0-rc5
v8.11.0-rc5-ee
v8.11.0-rc6
v8.11.0-rc6-ee
v8.11.0-rc7
v8.11.0-rc7-ee
v8.11.1
v8.12.0
v8.12.0-ee
v8.12.0-rc1
v8.12.0-rc1-ee
v8.12.0-rc2
v8.12.0-rc2-ee
v8.12.0-rc3
v8.12.0-rc3-ee
v8.12.0-rc4
v8.12.0-rc4-ee
v8.12.0-rc5
v8.12.0-rc5-ee
v8.12.0-rc6
v8.12.0-rc6-ee
v8.12.0-rc7
v8.12.0-rc7-ee
v8.12.0.pre
v8.12.1
v8.12.1-ee
v8.12.2
v8.12.2-ee
v8.12.3-ee
v8.2.0-ee
v8.2.0.rc1
v8.2.0.rc1-ee
v8.2.0.rc2
v8.2.0.rc2-ee
v8.8.0
v8.8.0-ee
v8.8.0-rc1
v8.8.0-rc1-ee
v8.8.0-rc2
v8.8.0-rc2-ee
v8.8.1-ee