PT-2022-4600 · Gitlab · Gitlab Ce/Ee+1

Legit-Security · Published 2022-08-30 · Updated 2025-05-13 · CVE-2022-2931

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GitLab CE/EE versions prior to 15.1.6 GitLab CE/EE versions 15.2 prior to 15.2.4 GitLab CE/EE versions 15.3 prior to 15.3.2

Description A potential DOS issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE. The issue is related to insufficient input validation in the commit message field, which could allow a remote attacker to cause high CPU usage by adding malformed content to the issue description.

Recommendations For versions prior to 15.1.6, update to version 15.1.6 or later. For versions 15.2 prior to 15.2.4, update to version 15.2.4 or later. For versions 15.3 prior to 15.3.2, update to version 15.3.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

BDU:2022-05478

BIT-GITLAB-2022-2931

CVE-2022-2931

Affected Products

Gitlab

Gitlab Ce/Ee

References · 13

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/2xxx/CVE-2022-2931.json · Exploit
• 🔥 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/361982 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2931 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2931 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-2931 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2931 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-05478 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-2931 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-gitlab-2022-2931 · Vendor Advisory
• https://hackerone.com/reports/1543718 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/121992 · Telegram Post
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-2931.json · Note
• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/08/30/critical-security-release-gitlab-15-3-2-released · Note