An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.3.6, all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.2, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.1. A low-privileged attacker can point a CI/CD Component to an incorrect path and cause the server to exhaust all available memory through an infinite loop and cause Denial of Service.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-58108 An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.3.6, all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.2, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.1. A low-privileged attacker can point a CI/CD Component to an incorrect path and cause the server to exhaust all available memory through an infinite loop and cause Denial of Service.
Fixes

Solution

Upgrade to versions 16.5.1, 16.4.2, 16.3.6 or above.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 19:30:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-400

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 06:30:00 +0000

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Title Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in GitLab Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in GitLab
Weaknesses CWE-835

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:15:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-22T04:09:41.335Z

Reserved: 2023-10-27T10:01:45.672Z

Link: CVE-2023-5825

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:14:24.604Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-11-06T11:15:09.740

Modified: 2025-05-05T14:11:43.397

Link: CVE-2023-5825

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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