An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.10 before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2. A regular expression used for handling user input (notes, comments, etc) was susceptible to catastrophic backtracking that could cause a DOS attack.
{ "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "severity": "Medium" }