An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.7 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2. A Regular Expression Denial of Service was possible via sending crafted payloads to the preview_markdown endpoint.
{ "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "severity": "High" }