A vulnerability was found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 12.2.1 (Bug Tracking Software). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Markdown Handler. The manipulation as part of a Expression leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 8.15 through 12.2.1. Particular mathematical expressions in GitLab Markdown can exhaust client resources.

The weakness was shared 09/16/2019 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at about.gitlab.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-15722 since 08/28/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries VDB-141838, VDB-141840, VDB-141841 and VDB-141843 are related to this item.

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• Bug Tracking Software

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• GitLab

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• Community Edition
• Enterprise Edition

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• 12.2.0
• 12.2.1

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• open-source

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