CVE-2023-2199

CVSS 3.1 Score 3.2 of 10 (low)

Details

Published Jun 7, 2023
Updated: Jan 7, 2025

Summary

CVE-2023-2199 is a vulnerability affecting GitLab CE/EE versions 12.0 before 15.10.8, 15.11 before 15.11.7, and 16.0 before 16.0.2. This issue involves a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) risk, which can be exploited by sending specially crafted payloads to the preview_markdown endpoint. The vulnerability allows an attacker to cause GitLab to consume excessive resources, potentially leading to a denial of service condition. Users are urged to upgrade their GitLab installations to the patched versions as soon as possible to mitigate this risk.

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Affected Products

  • Oracle VVM VirtualBox
  • Oracle VM Virtualbox

Affected Vendors

  • Oracle Corp