Vulnerability · Published Feb 13, 2023 · Assigned by GitLab

CVE-2022-3759

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in GitLab from GitLab. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 69% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 31.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 14.3 before 15.6.7, all versions starting from 15.7 before 15.7.6, all versions starting from 15.8 before 15.8.1. An attacker may upload a crafted CI job artifact zip file in a project that uses dynamic child pipelines and make a sidekiq job allocate a lot of memory. In GitLab instances where Sidekiq is memory-limited, this may cause Denial of Service.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
GitLab GitLab >=14.3, <15.6.7>=15.7, <15.7.6>=15.8, <15.8.1

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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