Vulnerability CVE-2022-0488
Published: 2022-03-28

Description:
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting with version 8.10. It was possible to trigger a timeout on a page with markdown by using a specific amount of block-quotes.

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4/10
2.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Gitlab -> Gitlab 

 References:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-0488.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/23520
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