CVE-2023-5825

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    CVE-2023-5825

    Published: 6 Nov 2023Last Modified: 28 Oct 2026

    Summary: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in GitLab

    Details: An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.3.6, all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.2, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.1. A low-privileged attacker can point a CI/CD Component to an incorrect path and cause the server to exhaust all available memory through an infinite loop and cause Denial of Service.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/5xxx/CVE-2023-5825.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5825, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/428984, https://hackerone.com/reports/2218566, git://[email protected]:gitlab-org/gitlab.git

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 3adc0fe6e7c163bedd7faa5f0c4d1e5fbb6bf3c5
    Fixed -128862473d18a7df991090bb25688a8c81fcb0fe

    Affected versions

    16.5.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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