CVE-2022-2908 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A potential DoS vulnerability was discovered in Gitlab CE/EE versions starting from 10.7 before 15.1.5, all versions starting from 15.2 before 15.2.3, all versions starting from 15.3 before 15.3.1 allowed an attacker to trigger high CPU usage via a special crafted input added in the Commit message field.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00255.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gitlab	Gitlab

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-35136	A potential DoS vulnerability was discovered in Gitlab CE/EE versions starting from 10.7 before 15.1.5, all versions starting from 15.2 before 15.2.3, all versions starting from 15.3 before 15.3.1 allowed an attacker to trigger high CPU usage via a special crafted input added in the Commit message field.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-2908.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/363734
https://hackerone.com/reports/1584156

History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00029}`	epss `{'score': 0.00036}`

Tue, 13 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-13T19:10:54.397Z

Reserved: 2022-08-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-2908

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T00:52:59.998Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-17T16:15:21.517

Modified: 2025-05-13T20:15:22.687

Link: CVE-2022-2908

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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