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01 Record

CVE-2023-3994

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: GitLab
CNA base score7.5 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

02 Description

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Public exploit code exists. CISA's assessment records a public proof of concept. That is not a report of exploitation in the wild.
SSVC decision
  • ExploitationpocPublic proof-of-concept exploit code exists. Not a report of exploitation in the wild.
  • AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
  • Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.
CISA publishes the decision points, not a final SSVC decision. The decision also depends on mission and well-being impact, which is a property of your deployment rather than of the vulnerability.
EPSS probability
0.95% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 61.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2023-08-02 00:06Z3 YR AGO
Last updated
2026-04-27 04:06Z6 MO AGO
Reserved
2023-07-28
Assigning CNA
GitLab
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 7.5)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-1333Inefficient Regular Expression ComplexityBase
Data version
5.2
Document digest
ec0c23b05c40938c7febba089675a5575fd08dc359b9e941347ea5775e072d14

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
GitLabGitLab9.3 to < 16.0.8, 16.1 to < 16.1.3, 16.2 to < 16.2.2—

06 References

07 Remediation

Upgrade to versions 16.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.0.8 or above.

08 Fixed in

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

  • gitlab
    No fix yet

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

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