Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-2132

Gitlab 15.4.0 – 15.10.8

Published
06 June 2023
Modified
07 January 2025
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.013 69th percentile
Risk Priority 62 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-2132 is a high-severity Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Endpoint Denial of Service (T1499); ranked in the top 31% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.4 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2. A DollarMathPostFilter Regular Expression Denial of Service in was possible…

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by sending crafted payloads to the preview_markdown endpoint.

CWE(s)
CWE-1333

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service Impact
Adversaries may perform Endpoint Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of services to users.
attack.mitre.org →
T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood Impact
Adversaries may target resource intensive features of applications to cause a denial of service (DoS), denying availability to those applications.
attack.mitre.org →
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

gitlab
gitlab
15.4.0 — 15.10.8 · 15.4.0 — 15.10.8 · 15.11.0 — 15.11.7

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly prevent inefficient regex via reviews, static analysis, and safe libraries.

ID.RA-01 partial match
prevents

Vulnerability identification processes can discover ReDoS issues in existing code but do not stop their introduction.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match
finds

Security testing can detect and reject regex patterns with exponential worst-case complexity.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
prevents

Secure development lifecycle mandates review of algorithmic efficiency, directly addressing ReDoS-prone regex.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
prevents

Application security requirements can specify input-validation rules that limit regex complexity.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
prevents

Secure architecture principles encourage avoidance of computationally expensive constructs such as catastrophic backtracking.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly prohibit or limit the use of inefficient regular expressions.

References