What is CVE-2020-13349?

CVE-2020-13349 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2020-11-17.

How severe is CVE-2020-13349?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Gitlab

CVE-2020-13349

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 8.12. A regular expression related to a file path resulted in the Advanced Search feature susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. Affected versions are >=8.12, <13.3.9,>=13.4, <13.4.5,>=13.5, <13.5.2.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.009 (56.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Gitlab
Gitlab Ee — versions >=8.12, <13.3.9, >=13.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@gitlab.com (x_refsource_MISC, Broken Link)
cve@gitlab.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-13349?: CVE-2020-13349 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2020-11-17.
How severe is CVE-2020-13349?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.