CVE-2022-3478 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 12.8 before 15.4.6, all versions starting from 15.5 before 15.5.5, all versions starting from 15.6 before 15.6.1. It was possible to trigger a DoS attack by uploading a malicious nuget package.

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 0.00053.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gitlab	Gitlab

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:15.6.0::::community:::
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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-42850	An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 12.8 before 15.4.6, all versions starting from 15.5 before 15.5.5, all versions starting from 15.6 before 15.6.1. It was possible to trigger a DoS attack by uploading a malicious nuget package.

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-2022-3478.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/377788
https://hackerone.com/reports/1716296

History

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +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: 2023-01-24T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-02T15:05:04.648Z

Reserved: 2022-10-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3478

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:14:01.420Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-26T21:15:51.460

Modified: 2025-04-02T15:15:45.150

Link: CVE-2022-3478

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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