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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2019-13011

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.11.0 through 12.0.2. By using brute-force a user with access to a project, but not it's repository could create a list of merge requests template names. It has excessive algorithmic complexity.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
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CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published