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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Broken Link x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/270199
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2020/CVE-2020-26414.json
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0027
EPSS Percentile
50.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Details
Status
published
Products (1)
gitlab/gitlab
12.4.0 - 13.5.6 (2 CPE variants)
Published
Jan 15, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026