CVE-2023-6386

A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitLab CE/EE, affecting all versions from 15.11 prior to 16.6.7, 16.7 prior to 16.7.5 and 16.8 prior to 16.8.2 which allows an attacker to spike the GitLab instance resource usage resulting in service degradation.

CVSS v3.0 7.5 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/433147	Broken Link
https://hackerone.com/reports/2261581	Permissions Required

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*

History

05 Aug 2025, 21:03

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::* cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
First Time		Gitlab gitlab Gitlab
References	~~() https://hackerone.com/reports/2261581 -~~	() https://hackerone.com/reports/2261581 - Permissions Required
References	~~() https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/433147 -~~	() https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/433147 - Broken Link
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~unknown~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 7.5

05 Feb 2025, 10:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-02-05 10:15

Updated : 2025-08-05 21:03

NVD link : CVE-2023-6386

Mitre link : CVE-2023-6386

JSON object : View

Products Affected

gitlab

gitlab

CWE

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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