An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.3 before 16.3.6, all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.2, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.1. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible by adding a large string in timeout input in gitlab-ci.yml file.

Related CVEs

CVE-2023-3909

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-8mrc-cw5j-72jw

Published

November 6, 2023 3:30 PM

Last Modified

November 6, 2023 3:30 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: June 16, 2025 6:25 AM

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