CVE-2020-13281 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

For GitLab before 13.0.12, 13.1.6, 13.2.3 a denial of service exists in the project import feature

Published: 2020-08-13

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: 1.3% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

No analysis available yet.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

GitLab

GitLab

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`>=8.9, <13.0.12`	affected	—
`>=13.1, <13.1.6`	affected	—
`>=13.2, <13.2.3`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-5541	For GitLab before 13.0.12, 13.1.6, 13.2.3 a denial of service exists in the project import feature

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01327.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2020/CVE-2020-13281.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/31564
https://hackerone.com/reports/687730

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Gitlab Gitlab

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2020-08-13T13:22:23.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T12:11:19.554Z

Reserved: 2020-05-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-13281

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-08-13T14:15:20.453

Modified: 2026-06-17T02:52:51.000

Link: CVE-2020-13281

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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