CVE-2023-5963

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    CVE-2023-5963

    Published: 6 Nov 2023Last Modified: 30 Oct 2026

    Summary: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

    Details: An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE with Advanced Search affecting all versions from 13.9 to 16.3.6, 16.4 prior to 16.4.2 and 16.5 prior to 16.5.1 that could allow a denial of service in the Advanced Search function by chaining too many syntax operators.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/5xxx/CVE-2023-5963.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5963, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/423468, git://[email protected]:gitlab-org/gitlab.git

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- a1a60e9f753f4e99f2b13b24028a6092a897cc06
    Fixed -None

    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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