GitLab Community Edition/Enterprise Edition DollarMathPostFilter redos

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition. This issue affects the function DollarMathPostFilter. The manipulation leads to redos. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-2132. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition (Bug Tracking Software) (affected version unknown). This issue affects the function DollarMathPostFilter. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a redos vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-1333. The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.4 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2. A DollarMathPostFilter Regular Expression Denial of Service in was possible by sending crafted payloads to the preview_markdown endpoint.

The weakness was released 06/06/2023 as 407586. The advisory is shared at gitlab.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-2132 since 04/17/2023. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1449.003 for this issue.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-33652). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.7

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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NVD Base Score: 7.5
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CNA Base Score: 7.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Redos
CWE: CWE-1333 / CWE-400 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

04/17/2023 🔍
06/06/2023 +50 days 🔍
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12/17/2025 +925 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: gitlab.com

Advisory: 407586
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2023-2132 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-2132
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-230861
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/06/2023 22:32
Updated: 12/17/2025 15:54
Changes: 06/06/2023 22:32 (49), 07/05/2023 08:22 (1), 01/08/2025 01:38 (26), 12/17/2025 15:54 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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