CVE-2020-26411

A potential DOS vulnerability was discovered in all versions of Gitlab starting from 13.4.x (>=13.4 to <13.4.7, >=13.5 to <13.5.5, and >=13.6 to <13.6.2). Using a specific query name for a project search can cause statement timeouts that can lead to a potential DOS if abused.

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2020/CVE-2020-26411.json
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/260330