What is CVE-2023-6678?

CVE-2023-6678 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-04-12.

How severe is CVE-2023-6678?

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

Vulnerability in Gitlab

CVE-2023-6678

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions before 16.8.6, all versions starting from 16.9 before 16.9.4, all versions starting from 16.10 before 16.10.2. It was possible for an attacker to cause a denial of service u…

Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.006 (43.6th 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 — versions 0, 16.9, 16.10

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1333 — Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

cve@gitlab.com (issue-tracking, permissions-required, Broken Link)
cve@gitlab.com (Permissions Required, technical-description, permissions-required, exploit)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-6678?: CVE-2023-6678 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-04-12.
How severe is CVE-2023-6678?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.