Vulnerability · Published Jan 15, 2021 · Assigned by GitLab

CVE-2020-26414

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in GitLab from GitLab. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.6% (higher than 76% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.6%top 24.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 12.4. The regex used for package names is written in a way that makes execution time have quadratic growth based on the length of the malicious input string.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
GitLab	GitLab	>=12.4, <13.5.6>=13.6.0, <13.6.4>=13.7.0, <13.7.2

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/270199 x_refsource_MISC
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2020/CVE-2020-26414.json x_refsource_CONFIRM