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.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gitlab | Gitlab | 12.4.0 (including) | 13.5.6 (excluding) |
| Gitlab | Gitlab | 13.6.0 (including) | 13.6.4 (excluding) |
| Gitlab | Gitlab | 13.7.0 (including) | 13.7.2 (excluding) |
| Gitlab | Ubuntu | esm-apps/xenial | * |
| Gitlab | Ubuntu | xenial | * |