Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 12, 2024· Updated Nov 20, 2025

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

CVE-2023-6678

Description

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 using malicious crafted content in a junit test report file.

Affected products

GitLab Inc./GitLabv5
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: 0
GitLab Inc./GitLab CE/EEllm-fuzzy
Range: <16.8.6, >=16.9 <16.9.4, >=16.10 <16.10.2
osv-coords
pkg:bitnami/gitlab
Range: < 16.8.6

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

hackerone.com/reports/2268037mitretechnical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/434689mitreissue-trackingpermissions-required

News mentions

GitLab Patch Release: 16.10.2, 16.9.4, 16.8.6
GitLab Security Releases · Apr 10, 2024

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