CVE-2023-6159 (GCVE-0-2023-6159)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-26 02:02
Modified
2025-06-09 20:45
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.7 prior to 16.6.6, 16.7 prior to 16.7.4, and 16.8 prior to 16.8.1 It was possible for an attacker to trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service via a `Cargo.toml` containing maliciously crafted input.
References
Impacted products
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