Vulnerability CVE-2022-1174


Published: 2022-04-04

Description:
A potential DoS vulnerability was discovered in Gitlab CE/EE versions 13.7 before 14.7.7, all versions starting from 14.8 before 14.8.5, all versions starting from 14.9 before 14.9.2 allowed an attacker to trigger high CPU usage via a special crafted input added in Issues, Merge requests, Milestones, Snippets, Wiki pages, etc.

Type:

CWE-400

(Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Gitlab -> Gitlab 

 References:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-1174.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/338721
https://hackerone.com/reports/1305431

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